"I will tell you how it really was, and how the legend of Troy was born. And I will start from the very beginning, as if from the change of generations of gods in heaven. First there was a golden age, when the kings were like gods, and they carried out the fate of the world. But the gods were angry with people, and sent droughts, pestilence, crop failure, and war. And our old world died. But now, it will be born again, resurrected once again in the legend of Troy." A historical (or rather crypto-historical) novel about the fall. Troy and the Bronze Age disaster. Without strangers, gods, mysticism. However, some heroes of the Iliad and other myths appear here as if they were historical figures along with such figures as Pharaoh Ramesses II, the Hittite kings Muwatalli II and Hattusili III, and many others.