About the book: 2019 / Historical novels by the Russian Soviet writer Vasily Yan “Genghis Khan” (1939), “Batu” (1942), “To the “last sea” sea" (1955), together making up the trilogy "Invasion of the Mongols", tell the story of the aggressive campaigns of the Mongol-Tatar tribes in Central Asia and Europe in the first half of the 13th century. Paving the way from east to west with fire and sword, hordes of nomads under the leadership of Genghis Khan subjugate the Khorezm kingdom, and after a decade and a half, the troops of his grandson, Batu Khan, set off through the Polovtsian steppes, the Volga region and the Caucasus to Rus', fragmented into separate principalities, capturing Ryazan, Moscow, Vladimir, Kyiv and other Russian cities, after which they rush to the countries of Central Europe, to the Atlantic Ocean, to create an empire stretching from sea to sea... Brutal and bloody skirmishes on the attacked lands, the heroic defense of besieged cities, the advice of the great khan and national gatherings - in this kaleidoscopic change of pictures and events, a powerful whirlpool of history manifests itself, captivating both omnipotent rulers, and mere mortals, and an individual, and entire nations…