About the book: 2020 / 1572. Moscow had just recovered from a devastating Tatar raid. But the Crimean Khan Devlet Giray does not think about calming down. He is preparing a new campaign. This time, the Khan plans to finally defeat the Russians and sit down in Moscow “to reign.” Tsar Ivan the Terrible is hastily preparing for defense: building new border fortifications, strengthening the army with Don Cossacks and German reiters. It was decided to meet the enemy on the banks of the Oka. A detachment of voivode Mikhaila Bordak is sent there for reconnaissance. He sees the Tatars crossing the river and hurries to inform the chief governor, Prince Vorotynsky, about this. Neither the Tatars nor Bordak himself yet know what trap is being prepared for the steppe inhabitants on this shore…