The novel “Stone Breast” by the famous Russian writer Anatoly Zagorny is a fascinating epic story about those distant times when Kievan Rus, surrounded by a ring of hostile peoples, fought for its independence. The Kiev prince Svyatoslav rules with an iron hand, crushing all the enemies of Rus' from East to West, from the ferocious nomadic Pechenegs to the treacherous Byzantines. But the center of the novel is still not war or court intrigue, but love as eternal as the world. The Slavic warrior Dobrogast and the beautiful Sudislava are destined to go through many trials, survive bloody battles and escape unharmed from besieged cities. Before you, dear readers, is certainly one of the best love adventure novels of the last century!