This book includes three historical novellas united under the common title “Three Prodigal Sons.” They are based on real events that occurred in different eras with people who were very unlike one another. A sorcerer who enters a deadly duel with a young Christian woman in Ancient Rome; Tsar Ivan the Terrible; a Soviet worker—these “three prodigal sons” and the weight of their fate seem to have crushed them and driven them to the very borders of real hell. But at the fateful moment, they found the strength to return to Life and to obtain God’s love and forgiveness. In these novellas, perhaps for the first time, the most important things in each person’s life are told with talent and in an engaging way. The reader will immerse themselves in a historical era to wage this spiritual struggle against evil for a soul together with the heroes—and to achieve victory with them, a real one, not one invented by the writer.