Prussia, thirteenth century. Riot policeman Vasily Burtsev, who has fallen into the past, finds himself again at the center of events. Secret rituals of the pagans and the battle with the Teutonic knights, a skirmish with the Prussian priests-widelots in the forbidden Sacred Forest and the Kulm tournament, which ended... with shooting from the “Schmeissers”... The book is published in a new, author’s edition.