“The Dead Man from the House of Valeyevsky” — a novel by Vasily Mahanenko, the eighth book of the eponymous cycle. Genre: heroic fantasy, boyar anime, RealRPG.
Maximilian is the last of the Valeyevsky baronial line. His entire family has been executed—allegedly for trying to attack the influential Duke Odoyevsky, who coveted the lands belonging to the barons. The young man managed to avoid execution, but not punishment. From now on, he is a condemned man. The first one to encounter the transformed creatures of the dark god Skron. “Die, but do”—that is the motto of the condemned, firmly ingrained in the head of the last of the Valeyevsky line. The duke stripped Maximilian of everything except honor and a thirst for revenge. The young man vowed that he would crawl out of the pit he’d been thrown into and declare his claim to the family domain. But first he has to deal with training and survive. None of the new would-be condemned men can dream of anything else.