In 1825, during a trip to the Black Sea, the All-Russian Emperor Alexander I the Blessed, the winner of Napoleon, a participant in the conspiracy against his own father, the murdered Sovereign Paul I. A fob with the body of the tsar was carried across the country. Crowds of people mourned their monarch. But when many years later the royal tomb was opened, it was empty. Popular rumor believes that the repentant emperor left the throne and went to atone for his sins as a simple tramp. A few years later, Elder Fyodor Kuzmich appeared in Siberia, like two drops of water similar to the deceased tsar. The people revered him as a saint during his lifetime, and the Church canonized him after death. But was he the Emperor of All-Russia in the past? The elder kept silent about this. The author is trying to solve this mystery.