The Salt Road

Together with the heroes, following the Cossack cart train, the listener will go to Crimea, will witness the brutal clashes of the Polovtsians with Russian people: what an exciting journey this will be! With great skill and credibility—fully in accordance with historical truth—the author weaves into the fate of the independent and proud Evsey Bovkun, the main hero of the novella, the emergence of the first Russian settlements in the wild but free at that time Podonye. From the oppression of princes and noble wealthy men, freedom-loving rabble fled here from all over Rus. Here came also the смерд Evsey, seeking salvation from the yoke of the prince Putyata, the executioner-baron. But life far from their native Kyiv and close to the roaming Polovtsian tribes is full of difficulties and dangers. And Evsey is forced to search for salvation again…