While the English Plantagenets and the French Capet were dividing the West among themselves, the Egyptian Sultan Saladin with a huge army moved to conquer Palestine. The holy city of Jerusalem fell, and the states created by the crusaders were on the verge of destruction. Having barely established himself on the throne, Richard hastened to fulfill his long-standing vow and joined the Third Crusade proclaimed by the Pope. In a task sacred to all Christians, he joined forces with his sworn enemy Philip of France. But the path to the Holy Land is long and full of dangers, and on this path the king-knight will have to prove again and again that he is rightfully called the Lionheart... Thus begins the story of one of the most famous kings of the Middle Ages - Richard the Lionheart. For the first time in Russian!< /p>