A fascinating historical novel goes back to the time of the Grand Duke of Moscow Ivan III. Its plot is based on authentic historical events of the late 15th century, little known to the general reader - it tells about the struggle of the Great Moscow Principality for the annexation of Russian lands under the rule of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. A young nobleman Vasily Medvedev, together with two friends, sets off on a dangerous journey to Lithuania. to rescue a kidnapped girl. But events are developing rapidly and taking an unexpected turn. Pursuing their goals, achieving influence on the Moscow throne, ministers of a secret and deeply conspiratorial sect-organization, known in Russian history as the “Novgorod heresy”, intervene in the matter...

... There is nothing stronger than pure and undoubted faith Father and Son and Holy Spirit. And there is nothing more destructive than unbelief and doubt, from which one falls into heresy and apostasy, as happened with the Novgorod heretics and apostates who recently appeared...