The shining world of the 27th century, a world of flourishing technology, interstellar flights, armored armadas guarding the peace of the Fatherland. The world of the Russian Directory, its friends and enemies...Filled with adventures and good humor, the novel “Pilot Maiden” tells readers about the fate of the brave village girl Vasilisa Bogateeva, born in the small space state of Bolshoy Murom. And about those adventures, funny and dangerous, that Vasilisa went through on her difficult path from the daughter of a village elder on a remote pagan planet to a cadet at a space academy in the city of Podolsk near Moscow. The reader will visit a space pirate fort, learn the rules of hunting Naotarian basilisks, and learn to cook explosives together with a chemistry teacher from the Concordian school, and will also understand how to pilot space aircraft carriers that have lost control due to a direct hit from the gravitational laser of insidious aliens.