Koschei's Mountain

"Year 963. Prince Svyatoslav returns to Kyiv with terrible news: on the Volkhv River his stepbrother Uleb has been killed; a small son of Svyatoslav and Malusha has been proclaimed prince of Northern Rus. These news turn the entire family against Svyatoslav: his mother, his wife, Uleb’s kin—among them influential and dangerous people. They’re ready to take revenge, but the likely killers have vanished somewhere unknown.

Torleiv, the nephew of Princess Olga, tracks the trail when he sets out on a long journey for an entirely different reason—after a bride. The trail leads him into deep forest wilderness, where the rulers are not exactly people—perhaps guests from Navi. And in the path of the avengers stands the biggest obstacle of all: Svyatoslav’s secret—the true reason he had refused to pursue the killers. Now his brothers, Torleiv and Ber, must decide what matters more to them—revenge for Uleb or the well-being of Rus.

In the book you will meet:
He— a representative of the highest Kyiv Rus nobility, by the mother one of the Slavic Krivich, by the father Danish, knowing four languages and holding two charters, the closest relative of the prince and the senior princess, the object of the princess’s secret love—at only 22 years old, he has seen several distant countries, beautiful as a god, endowed with every conceivable virtue, baptized in the new Christian faith.
She— a girl from the senior line of the Oka Vyatich, an heiress of a famous soothsayer who can see spirits; she left her home only once, and not by her own will, her appearance is less “beautiful” than unusual… What could they possibly have in common in the past or in the future? And what could bring them together besides love?"