In the Holy Land

Alexander Voronov, a student at the Institute of Foreign Languages, is sent seven hundred years back—into the distant past—on the Mediterranean coast. That’s where his knowledge of French comes in handy, which his strict grandmother and stern instructors had been drilling into him. Alexander becomes a squire to a knight-templar at the most tragic moment—the attack of the Mamluks on the last stronghold of the knights, the city-fortress Acre.

Our student won’t disappear anywhere—gaining battle experience, Voronov makes a rapid career in the besieged city.

But the forces are not equal! Barely avoiding death and capture, the young warrior escapes on the last ship to France, from where, by a roundabout route, he makes his way to Rus’. But he falls from the frying pan into the fire—right in the midst of the Tatar invasion.