About the book: year / Beginning of the XIII century from the Nativity of Christ. White Rus' is still one of the strongest states in Europe, but endless princely strife is eroding the roots of the Russian World. While brother goes against brother and the Rurikovichs shed their own blood in internecine wars, ruining Russian cities worse than the steppe inhabitants, a Mongolian thunderstorm is gathering in the East, which will sweep away their squads from the face of the earth, turning their former greatness into dust and ashes... From the death of Vsevolod the Big Nest to the fratricidal slaughter on Lipitsa, where 20 thousand Russian soldiers died, and from the defeat on Kalka to Batu’s invasion - this historical epic commemorates the great, heroic and tragic era that became the CURSED CENTURY of the Russian Land.