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Valentyn Chemeris (1936-2016), a famous Ukrainian writer, author of historical and fantasy novels and short stories, essays, collections of humour, satire, parodies, and works for children, was the recipient of many literary awards, including the International Prize of the Ukrainian Cossacks "Knight's Pen" (2008). He began his career in 1959, and his track record is impressive: over 70 books were published during his lifetime. The most prominent place in the writer's work is occupied by historical novels, some of which have even become cult. In these works, the author tells about Ukraine's past in an interesting, indifferent and impartial way, using vivid images that arouse the imagination, leave a mark in the soul, and make people proud of their nation : "Marina - Tsarina of Moscow". And she was - the Tsarina of Moscow. However, for only nine (!) days in the year 1606. And then eight years of incredible ups and downs. Maryna Mnieszczek, a Polish countess, the eighteen-year-old daughter of a voivode from Sambir in the Carpathian Mountains, became queen and wife of two kings of those troubled times, which were nicknamed the Troublesome Times in Russia, and she became the Queen of the Troubles. This is what Valentyn Chemeris's novel tells us about.) It also tells about Maryna's love for the young Tsar Dmitry, her last love for the Cossack ataman Ivan Zarutsky, the bloody tragedy that befell her, and the fate of the Moscow tsarina, whose life was cut short so early - at the age of 26 - in the tower of the Kolomna Kremlin and who would be declared a witch and a sorceress after her death...