This novel is about one of the greatest people in Russian history, who is associated with both terrible and heroic events. And yes, he changed Russia beyond recognition. But what kind of person was he, and where did he come from?Yes, all the evidence, the inexorable facts, speak in favor of the fact that he was the bastard of William III of Orange. But all this does not diminish his accomplishments, nor erase his sins. This is what this book is dedicated to.