The swift archer Fyodor Myatelev, the nobleman from Shemetev's cavalry regiment Vasily Rzhev, the fugitive slave Minka Ivanov, the Zaporozhye Cossack Ivan Rog found themselves within the Ottoman Empire. Their path led to Istanbul, where Fyodor will have to penetrate the palace of the padishah... The second novel in the series "Sagittarius of the Sovereign's Regiment." It is a continuation of the novel "The Voivode's Envoy."