The article deals with the specificity of the depiction of the era of Ivan IV in A.V. Ivanov's novel "The Chronicle of Ioann" (2009). The author of the article used comparative-historical and holistic methods of analysing a literary work. As a result of the research it was revealed that he devoted to the comprehension of a synthetic work combining elements of a historical novel, parable, mystery and hagiography. Although the basis of the text was the script for the film "The Tsar" (2009) by P. Lungin, in the novel as a "recoded" script, the interpretation of historical events and the main characters undergoes changes, the author's interpretation of Oprichnina is based on the eschatological concept of A. Yurganov. Yurganov, according to which oprichnina in the perception of Ivan Grozny was not so much a political as a religious phenomenon. Accordingly, the Oprichnina in the novel is a mystery of faith, an image of the future on the "earthly firmament", where executions are a kind of Russian purgatory before the Last Judgement, and the Tsar achieves full power as the executor of God's will to punish human sin and establish true "piety" not only to save his own soul, but sinners doomed to death. Most of the Tsar's actions in the novel are subordinated to the idea of the imminent end of the world and the belief in his own messianism. The strategy of historical narrative here is aimed not at depicting "real" history, but at subordinating it to the author's reflection on history, the central component of which is man
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