Contents of the collection with annotations: – Barbarians. The Soyuz TM-M-4 spacecraft makes an emergency landing in the Dnieper region. The astronauts are alive and well. Bye. Because this is the Dnieper region of the third century from the Nativity of Christ. And barbarians live here. The same ones that will very soon conquer the Roman Empire. Now those who survived the fall of one empire - the Soviet Union, will have to somehow survive on the eve of the fall of another empire: the Great Roman Empire. - Roman Eagle. Third century AD. Former lieutenant colonel of the Russian Air Force Gennady Cherepanov, together with his friend the first centurion Honorius Plautus Aptus, having escaped from captivity, having overcome hundreds of kilometers of enemy territory, go to the Danube. On the other side is Great Rome. The Great Roman Empire is on the eve of great upheavals. Soon it will be exhausted by civil wars, lawlessness and corruption, hordes of barbarians will pour from this shore and “Eternal” Rome will fall... But now, a year before the first of the “soldier” emperors, Maximinus the Thracian, dons royal purple, Rome is still the greatest empire in the world, formidable and powerful.