XIV century: the most brutal long-term wars of Tokhtamysh and Tamerlane, in the whirlpool of which a Russian captured by the Tatar-Mongols as a child finds himself. 20th century: one day in the life of a Soviet family in 1982. 21st century: the tragic trip of new climbers to Elbrus in 2012... These stories, seemingly unrelated to each other at first, suddenly form a harmonious mosaic by the end of the story, and the stunning finale brings them together. In the best traditions of Jena Pierce and David Mitchell.