About the book: year / Carrying out Kostya’s far-reaching plan, his first adviser Chernoslov with a detachment of guards captures Lukomorsk with one skillful magical blow. The royal family is thrown into dungeons, the boyars face a quick and terrible reprisal, the townspeople are driven into the mines or fooled by witchcraft. There was no one left who could save them and defeat the enemy... except for Elena the Beautiful, a stoker, nicknamed Granenych for his hobby, and the meek, intelligent Dionysius, a library student (“There is a brownie. There is a barn. And I am a library student”). But who said that feats should be performed only by knights on white horses? Chernoslov? He blurted it out without thinking…