The writer works with a special case: life gives a reason - and a plot is born. But one day the author discovers that this plot is "broken into thousands of pieces and each piece has its own eye, nose, ear - each fragment has its own picture." In the book "The People of our Tsar" there are such different and strange characters - writer's daughters, burdened with their origins, beauties tired of their own beauty, a dreamy locksmith who was carried away by Steiner's teachings, and the eccentric Lenya, raising the children of his beloved woman…