This book includes three historical stories, united under the general title “Three Prodigal Sons.” They are based on true events that happened in different eras with very different people. A sorcerer who entered into a mortal duel with a young Christian woman in Ancient Rome, Tsar Ivan the Terrible, a Soviet worker - three prodigal sons, and the weight of their fate seemed to crush them and lead them to the borders of real hell, but at the fateful moment they found the strength to return to Life and found God's love and forgiveness. In these stories, perhaps for the first time, the most important things in the life of every person are told in a talented and captivating way. The reader will be immersed in a historical era in order to, together with the heroes, wage this spiritual struggle against evil for the soul and in order to win with them a victory that is real, and not composed by the writer. Approved for distribution by the Publishing Council of the Russian Orthodox Church Number ISR14-409-0928