Superintendent Bunsha and Tsar Ivan IV are lookalikes but have completely different personalities, which results in funny situations of mistaken identity.

The film ends with Bunsha, Miloslavsky, and Ivan IV all transported back to their proper timelines, although the entire episode is revealed to be a dream by Shurik... or was it?

The original version of the time machine, manufactured by a special bureau, turned out to be an expressionless layout of a standard computer.

Pochechuev sketched a new model and, with the help of a designer, a locksmith and a glassblower, created a new time machine in a few days, causing the audience to feel a miracle .

Pochechuev received a prize of 40 rubles, and in the certificate from the accounting department it was written: "The money was issued for the invention of a time machine.