1418. Yegor Vozhnikov, a former Russian businessman, almost by accident ended up in the distant past in order to gain unusual abilities—and now he is the Grand Prince of Russia, Georgy, the Curator of Livonia, and the elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. After long European campaigns, Yegor-Georgy managed to seize power and build a great state that now needed to be defended: by military force, diplomacy, and cunning… Almost England and France crashed into a war; in the Pyrenees, Castile with León and Aragon unexpectedly moved against friendly Portugal and Navarre. And in the southern territories, a plague suddenly spreads… Meanwhile, in Novgorod—the recognized capital of the new Russia—a rebellion begins: the “worst” people rose against the “strong.” Civil strife breaks out in other principalities too, and powerful enemies are trying to topple Eger’s faithful vassal, Aygil, the Queen (Khansha) of the Golden Horde—sons of the late Tokhtamysh. Temperatures rise, and even the life of the princely family is under direct threat.