The Novgorod youth Athanasius is raised in a monastery as a basilisk - an avenger and fighter for the ascension to the throne of the rightful heir - the great-grandson of the great Dmitry Donskoy. Afanasy cannot carry out his plans. Not because of cowardice or powerlessness - because of indifference to the throne of the heir to the throne. Accused of heresy, Athanasius escapes and ends up in Istanbul, where he discovers the esoteric books of Sufi sages. Guided by fate, he not only attacks the fortresses of the Hospitallers of the Rhodes archipelago, but also solves complex questions: what is faith and superstition, how to distinguish friend from foe, what is sin and what is holiness. New knowledge opens up incredible opportunities for him and becomes the beginning of dizzying adventures... “Walking to Cadiz” is a historical adventure novel about how a boy from Novgorod turns into the pirate Barbarossa, and then into the interpreter Christopher Columbus, the first to set foot on America. Exoticism, heroism, and romance are combined in the novel with mysticism and the secrets of ancient teachings.