A novella by the unparalleled master of Ukrainian children’s historical novels, Volodymyr Rutkovsky, dedicated to heroic and little-known pages of our ancient past. Fifth-grader Vitka Bubnenko miraculously finds himself in the year 1097, where he witnesses the selfless defense of one of Rus’ outposts on the river Sula against the Polovtsian hordes. Side by side, he protects the borders of Rus’ land together with the glorious Old Rus’ warriors Ilya Muromets, Oleshko Popovych, and Dobrynya Nikitich…