Sovereigns of Moscow. Wind of Time

"Moscow Rulers" is a monumental cycle of novels created by writer, Russian philologist, folklorist, and historian Dmitry Balashov. This epic chronicle—a kind of one grand novel-epic—compressed into a multi-volume edition—covers the period of Russian history from 1263 to 1425 and for many decades has continued to amaze readers with the depth, scale, vividness of its images, and masterful stylization of language. Together, the novels of the cycle form a sort of chronicle in which historical events in the lives of major principalities unfold year by year, reflecting the everyday life and morals of various social classes and presenting the fates, appearance, and character of hundreds of historical figures.

A whirlwind that strikes peoples has again swept through the stirred world. As Prince Simeon the Proud was dying, he could hardly have suspected how much of what was firmly in place yesterday was destined to collapse in the years to come… The fifth novel in the "Moscow Rulers" cycle—"The Wind of Time"—tells about the end of the rivalry between the Moscow and Tver principalities for supremacy over Russian lands.