About the book: 2023 / 7th century... From Byzantium, the prince returns to his native Slavic lands, once sent by his father with an embassy to Constantinople with the aim of teaching him Byzantine wisdom and technology. He is eager to share his knowledge with his relatives, but they take him for nothing more than a mysterious and dangerous werewolf in the guise of a prince... Why?! (The novel, written in the style of magical realism, was published in 1999 by the St. Petersburg publishing house "Azbuka", in the series "Our Brand").