Evpaty Kolovrat: The Legendary Warlord

For the premiere of the film “The Legend of Kolovrat”!

Year 1237 A.D. A deadly winter of Batu’s invasion. Ryazan commander Yevpaty Kolovrat, who rode out for reinforcements, returns to the ruins of his native city—ruins of his own life. If your home turned to ash, if the ruler you served is dead, and all those dear to you are gone; if God Himself—whom you believed in—turned away from you and your land, where can you find help? And isn’t it time to remember that you carry not a Christian, but an ancient pagan nickname?

The chronicles say unbelievable things about Yevpaty Kolovrat’s detachment: it turns out the Tatars believed that the dead rose against them. Could ordinary partisans really have frightened half the world’s killers? And why, to defeat the Russians’ “braves,” did the invaders have to throw thousands of their best warriors against Kolovrat’s small company—one hundred against one?

What did the last commander of a dead city become if his enemies could kill him only with siege machines? Who answered his call and came to his aid? And what really happened on Rus’ during that mortal winter of 1237?

Read the new novel by the popular historian, author of the bestsellers “Pagans’ Rus’” and “Svyatoslav the Brave—God of the Russian War”!