Journey Through Nine Centuries. A Trading Guest from the Future

A new fantastic action novel from the author of the bestsellers “Time Barricade Regiment,” “Time Penalty Bat,” and “Navigator of the Submarine Crew”! A traveler from the future drifts down the current of Eternity—from the 21st century back to the fifteenth. Saving drowning “popadants” is a job for the “popadants” themselves! Barely missing going under in our days, he surfaces in the Principality of Moscow to become a “trade envoy” and set off across three seas, nine lands and nine centuries—first to Persia for spices that at the time were worth their weight in gold, and then to Italy for priceless Venetian glass. The “popadant” will have to fight Tatars on the Oka, Novgorod ushkuinniks on the Volga, and Berber pirates in the Mediterranean Sea; survive storms, squalls, and shipwrecks; overcome rapids and time whirlpools in order, in far-off Florence, to meet a young apprentice, Leo—who will be given a few inventions—and receive in gratitude his own portrait, signed: Leonardo da Vinci…