Tenth century. The birth of Rus'. A cruel and wonderful world. A world where the weak become a slave, and the strong become a victim of the stronger. A world where the main roads are river and sea routes. Kingdoms and empires fight for the right to control them. And also small but warlike Varangian principalities, who built their cities on the banks of rivers, past which you can’t get past either the Don or the Volga. And in order to hold on to their lands, not to allow their enemies to crush, destroy, destroy, they needed a leader capable of uniting and leading a very young union of Varangian princes and showing everyone: the Khazars, Scandinavians, Byzantines, Pechenegs: a new force had come to the world, with which should be respected. Grand Duke Oleg, nicknamed the Prophet, became this leader. This is how Russia began. A companion of the great commander Svyatoslav, adviser to the first of the sovereigns of Rus', Vladimir, he lived a long and glorious life, but there is no death for a real warrior. And now - a new life, into which Sergei Dukharev enters not as a powerful and imperious prince-voevoda, but as a powerless and weak boy without family or relatives. But he is young again, and there is a world around him in which there will certainly be a place for the glorious warrior that he will undoubtedly become... If he survives.