Lyuba Koshkina has long known that her father, an ambitious and unscrupulous nobleman, will stop at nothing to see her wed the grand prince-soon to be crowned as Russia's first tsar, Ivan the Terrible. A few months after her sixteenth birthday, the call for the tsar's bride show goes out. But Lyuba has goals of her own, and they do not include a royal marriage. She wants to record the tales that fill her head from morning to night, including the...