Boris Tumasov’s new novel “Washed in Blood” is a bright epic canvas that reliably recreates the controversial historical situation and political atmosphere of life in Kievan Rus in the last third of the 9th - early 11th centuries. At the center of the story is the figure of Grand Duke Vladimir, who defends the unity of the Russian land, and his two sons, Boris and Gleb, who later became the first saints of the Russian Orthodox Church.