The Grand Duke

Having completed his life in the twenty-first century—passing through pain, death, and rebirth—our contemporary gained in his new life what he desired most. What his soul had striven for, what his heart had suffered for, what he had reached for and longed to have… And though outside the window now looms the menacing and cruel sixteenth century, where Rus’ has only just crawled out of the pit of long-lasting feudal fragmentation, and the world around is full of тревог and deprivation—let it be so! After all, now he has a real family where he is loved. And besides, a caring father has begun to involve his heir in the family business— the same business their family has been engaged in for almost six hundred years. Wars and intrigues, attempts on life and betrayal by boyars and princes, secret killings and quite open executions—in short, the ordinary family business of the Rurik dynasty on the throne of Muscovite Rus’…