The first book in the series of the same name by Oleg Shelonin and his traditional co-author Viktor Bazhenov. …Two small twin brothers—Prince Alexey, also “Alyosha Draconich,” and Elisha, the cunning fates’ child in the form of Yaga—were separated even when they were still very small. One grew up in the chambers of a white-stone royal palace and is preparing to inherit the kingdom from King Yeremey. The other is in the Black Castle of the clever dragon Oikho.
The first was raised on legends and knightly feats; the other—on computer games and films from the strange world that his adoptive father cut an opening into. And so they lived, not suspecting anything about each other, until a strange illness struck the poor Oikho. And for treatment, a yellow metal is needed—there is always too little of it. The young adventurer, worthy heir of the manipulations of the Great Combinator Alyosha Draconich, immediately gets to work—and starts a gold rush…