About the book: year / Ancient documents preserved a brief message about a small episode from the history of Moldova. In 1455, a band of warriors from Cetatya-Albe in a sudden raid captured the castle of Lerici - a fortified trading post built by the Italians, the Senareg brothers, who were engaged in ransoming prisoners from Tatar captivity and reselling them to their relatives. Fate brought to the castle people captured in captivity by the Tatars during raids on Rus' and Lithuania, Moldova, Poland and Ukraine. A historical novel, politically correct and philosophical, romantic and truthful, one of the most interesting novels about Moldova, which laid the foundation for a whole series of works about its heroic past, reaching the peak of glory under the leadership of the legendary Stefan cel Mare and covering events that unfolded for more than a quarter of a century in the territories of Moldova and Crimea, the Ottoman Empire and the free city of Lviv...