The Centurion. The Polovtsian Trail

1129 AD. The Turovo-Pinsk Principality. The grim times just won’t end—clouds thicken over Ratno: in just one February, several deaths occur at once… Supposedly, accidents. But if you dig deeper? And, as if by design, the dead are precisely those who are useful—both to the local militia and personally to the hundred-captain Mikhail Lisovin. What’s more, a rather suspicious volkhv appears in the village. Enemies and haters intrigue everywhere—even at the highest levels. And now the Junior Guard, led by the hundred-captain Mikhailа, must join the campaign of Kyiv prince Mstislav against the Polovtsians: to avenge raids, to repay help given to political rivals, and—of course—to plunder Polovtsian cities and yurts. Battles, chases, ambushes, betrayals, the death of friends… And to the very end you don’t know who is friend and who is enemy. Right there—in the boundless steppes of Desht-i-Kypchak—a bloody Polovtsian trail stretches behind the hundred-captain, a trail of disaster and hatred.