"Direct Heir" is a novel, the first book in the cycle "The Birth of an Empire"; genre: science fiction, time travel reincarnations, historical adventures, alternative history.
It’s good to be a time-traveler to Brezhnev—ice cream, girls, songs… It’s good to be a time-traveler to Stalin—a little turret, a cartridge, songs… It’s good to be a time-traveler to Nicholas—factories, intelligence, songs… Even to Ivan the Terrible it’s not bad—guns, the oprichnina, the Urals…
But what about those who got thrown into the beginning of the 15th century? Enemies everywhere. You can’t reach the Urals. There are no factories, no guns, no cartridges. There’s definitely no ice cream. And besides—there aren’t even potatoes with tomatoes! People—catched up not much. And the songs are entirely different. And yet…