“I’m going into battle!” he warned his enemies as he set out on campaign. Under his command, the Russian army passed from the forests of Vyatka to the Caucasus Mountains, never knowing defeat. He erased the savage Khazar Khaganate from the face of the earth, subjugated the Volga Bulgars and the Burtases, routed the warlike Yases and Kasogs, and repeatedly struck the Pechenegs—instilling terror even in the mighty Tsargrad. The Byzantine army never managed to defeat the Russian дружини in a battle lasting many days on the Danube.
Having concluded a glorious peace with Constantinople, Svyatoslav sailed back to Rus. But it was not meant for him to return to Kyiv…
Distant campaigns and brutal slaughters, raids by nomads and Byzantine intrigues—Russian swords against steppe sabers and “Greek fire,” loud victories and martial glory, a legendary life and an untimely death—everything is in the new novel about the greatest commander of Ancient Rus!