Tenth century. The formation of Rus'. Time for legends. Time of heroes. This is not science fiction. This is the true world of History. The world is cruel, alien and bewitchingly beautiful. This is how you would see it if you could look into the past. Contents of the collection with annotations: – Varyag. Sergei Duharev was not going to look into the past. It’s just that one day he woke up there, in the tenth century, in a world where a stranger has only two options for the future: either a slave or a dead man. Sergei found a third way. – A place for battle. The last year of the reign of Grand Duke Igor. Sergei Duharev is the commander of a flying detachment of Varangian scouts in the Wild Field. Khazars, Pechenegs, Romans - everyone wants to make these feather grass steppes theirs. They - to rob, others - to trade, others... Still others, the Romans, do not care who will own the Steppe. If only this “someone” did not threaten Byzantium. Therefore, the Romans pay in gold to pit the Rus and the Pechenegs, the Hungarians and the Khazars against each other. This is beneficial to the Caesars, because this gold will still return to Byzantium... if it is not lost along the way. A warrior does not choose whether to fight or not. He will fight, because war is his life, his destiny. But a real warrior chooses the place for battle himself. - Prince. Sergei Duharev - governor and mentor of the young prince Svyatoslav, the warrior prince who conquered the great Khazaria and the Bulgar kingdom, expanding the borders Principality of Kyiv from the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea. A commander equal to him has not been born since the time of the ruler of the Huns, Attila...