The Post. Save and Survive

Protected on all sides by guard posts and Cossack troops, thousand-year-old Moscow stands firm. Inside the three rings of the Moscow defenses—and behind the walls of the Kremlin—there is a palace. In the palace, the Ruler-Emperor awards the very best of the best, the bravest of the brave— the color of the officer corps, the support and hope of the throne.

They will have to leave the decorated, prepared-to-celebrate-Mikhail-the-Archangel capital and go into the dark lands that once were part of Great Russia—until a rebellion engulfed them and they were damned with anathema.

But before the Cossack units head out there, beyond the murky Volga and behind the impenetrable veil of fog, someone must understand: where did all the scouts disappear, and why did the border posts fall silent?

This is known by a boy who didn’t want to learn history, and by a girl who is pregnant with the murdered Cossack’s child. But will they manage to tell it all?