About the book: 2019 / In the late spring of 1185, the regiment led by Prince Igor, into which the squads of Seversk Rus' were brought together, goes on a raid against the Polovtsians. Prince Igor in the golden stirrup enters. He leaves for an open field. But death awaits the Russians in the steppe... Who is to blame for the defeat of a large and well-trained army? The commander’s mistake or someone’s betrayal? The Kiev prince instructs his best swordsman, the gray-haired veteran Khoten, to assemble a reconnaissance detachment from selected warriors and go with him on a deep raid to find out the reasons for the defeat. What revelations might a reconnaissance group’s march into the very heart of enemy land, following in the footsteps of Igor’s regiment, lead to??