About the book: 2009 / Imagine that you are a rising star in Russian virology. You are young, girls like you, and quite recently you managed to save humanity from a deadly virus, the solution of which the best microbiologists of our time struggled in vain to solve. You are shown on TV, you are invited to scientific symposiums, foreign colleagues envy you with white envy... Only you have exactly three months left to live. Because people with such a diagnosis do not stay in this world for long. Now imagine that you are a medieval baron of an influential and prosperous state. You are part of His Majesty’s personal guard, you are a former knight of the Golden Shield, your family is older than the royal family, you are not yet thirty... Only life has no meaning for you. Because you have lost the most precious thing you had, and along with it - faith and the ability to feel. It turns out that there is no need to live, and there is nothing to wait for. There is only one way out: a stone on the neck - and into the water!.. Usually this is how it all ends. But in our history, this is where it all just began.…