The first novel of the trilogy—“Azov”—tells about the difficult relationship between Muscovy and the Wild Field, the казацкая freebooting world of Cossack liberty, as well as about the heroic campaign in 1637 by the Don Cossacks against the main Turkish stronghold in the southern coastal steppes: the fortress of Azov.
The wonderful Russian front-line writer Grigory Ilyich Miroshnichenko (1904–1985), a hereditary Don Cossack, considered his epic trilogy dedicated to the glorious defenders of the southern borders of the Fatherland in the distant 17th century his main work. Unfortunately, the writer did not manage to finish his work; the third book remained unwritten.