This historical novel is about a Livonian nobleman, Timotheus von Bock, who has married a peasant girl named Eeva to prove everyone that good men are equal before nature, god and ideals. Eeva´s brother Jakob analyses von Bock´s life throughout his journal and tries to figure out if the nobleman is truly mad as everyone seems to believe.
The Czar´s Madman is arguably one of the most well-known Estonian novels in the world.