About the book: 2017 / The hero of the novel has had many adventures. Yuri Kulchitsky, a Russian youth, is captured by the Turks for a long time, then he is ransomed by Serbian merchants and he is sent as a translator to Vienna just at the moment when the Turks besiege the capital of the Holy Roman Empire in 1683. Showing extraordinary courage and ingenuity, the young man makes his way from besieged Vienna to the location of the armies of the Austrian allies and leads them to help the city..