The book by the popular fiction writer Georgy Tikhonovich Polilov includes novels telling about the times when Rus' was divided into principalities and suffered from civil strife. The novel “The Princely Youth” tells about the Tver prince Yaroslav and his romantic love for the simple girl Ksenia. “Under Appanage Power” - about Prince Andrei Bogolyubsky; It was with his reign that Kyiv lost its significance as a capital city, and the prince himself remained to live in Vladimir. The novel “The Tsar’s Confessor” is dedicated to the life of Archpriest Sylvester, a remarkable man of his time, the confessor of Tsar Ivan the Terrible.