The book includes works telling about the events of the Time of Troubles in Russia at the beginning of the 17th century. In the new novel by the modern Russian writer Alexander Ilyich Antonov "The Great Sovereign" in the center of the story is the personality of the Patriarch of All Russia Filaret, in the world of the boyar Fyodor Romanov, father of Mikhail, the first Russian tsar from the Romanov family.