About the book: year / "Prophetic Oleg" - we have known about him since childhood. But what? Foolish Khazars, a magician, a horse, a snake... This is not in the novel by the famous writer Boris Vasiliev. And there is an intelligent and perspicacious leader of the Slavs, far ahead of his time, his friends and enemies, his beautiful and tragic love... And also - secrets and intrigues, battles and campaigns, as well as the most interesting details of the life and life of our distant ancestors. The events briefly listed in the epilogue of the novel formed the basis for the second part of Boris Vasiliev’s historical duology, the continuation of the book “Prophetic Oleg” - “Olga, Queen of the Rus.” “Olga, Queen of the Rus” - continuation of Boris Vasiliev’s novel “Prophetic Oleg” Olga, daughter Oleg, went down in history as the first Slavic princess to convert to Christianity. But her path to faith was by no means easy, and her fate was truly tragic. At the very beginning of life - marriage with an unloved person. In mature years - bright and short, like a flash, love, doomed to separation And the hatred of the only son, for whose sake so many sacrifices were made. Historical characters, familiar to us from textbooks, in Boris Vasiliev’s novel take on flesh and blood, speak with living voices and solve eternal problems - just as we solve them and our descendants will solve them. “Prince Svyatoslav” is another novel in the cycle of the famous writer Boris Vasiliev about the rulers of Ancient Rus'. The son of Princess Olga and Prince Igor went down in history as a brave warrior who defeated the Khazars, successfully fought with Byzantium and annexed many lands to the Grand Duchy of Kyiv. The author does not limit himself to describing the exploits of Svyatoslav; his hero is a tragic personality, who experienced both his mother’s dislike and the betrayal of his friends. Painful thoughts about the fate of his native land did not leave him until his accidental and mysterious death. "Vladimir the Red Sun." The outstanding Russian prose writer continues his series of historical novels about the princes of Ancient Rus'. To the previously published books “Prophetic Oleg”, “Olga, Queen of the Rus”, “Prince Svyatoslav” a novel about the Kiev prince Vladimir was added. He was called not only the Red Sun, but also the Saint or the Baptist, for during the years of his reign Rus' adopted Christianity. And the establishment of a new religion was inevitably accompanied by the strengthening of the state, as well as the fight against the numerous enemies of Rus' - external and internal. "Prince Yaroslav and his sons." A new historical novel by the famous Russian writer Boris Vasiliev takes readers to the first half of the 13th century, when Russian princes fiercely fought among themselves for primacy, beat German knights, fought and learned to get along with the Tatars. Its heroes are Vsevolod's son Big Nest Yaroslav Vsevolodovich, his son Alexander Yaroslavich, nicknamed Nevsky for the victory won on the Neva over the Swedes, his younger brother Andrei Yaroslavich, who fled to Sweden after a quarrel with his older brother, and many other fictional and historical persons. Alexander Nevsky is read with unflagging interest until the last page. The main character of this book is Prince Alexander Nevsky, a legendary figure in Russian history. He dedicated his entire short life to the unity of Rus' and its liberation from the fate of a conquered country. Having defeated the Swedes on the Neva and the German knights in the Battle of the Ice, he secured the western borders of Rus'. With skillful policies he prevented the devastating invasions of the Mongol-Tatars. For his deeds he was canonized by the Orthodox Church. "Vladimir Monomakh." The new novel by Boris Vasiliev, adjacent to the cycle of his novels about the princes of Ancient Rus' (“Prophetic Oleg”, “Olga, Queen of the Rus”, “Prince Svyatoslav”, “Yaroslav and His Sons”), tells about the dramatic moments in the life of the Grand Duke of Kyiv Vladimir Monomakh (1053–1125), not only a great commander who did not lose a single battle, but also a great diplomat: at the decisive moment he managed to unite the Russian appanage principalities to repel the formidable external enemy - the Polovtsians, and then build relations with them in such a way that he converted them from the worst