About the book: 2009 / The capital city of Kyiv is ruled by Grand Duke Yaroslav the Wise - a builder, politician and educator. But the inhabitants of a small town, far from the splendor of the capital, do not care about the prince and his neighbors. They have other concerns - to survive during the incessant raids of the cruel steppe inhabitants - the Pechenegs. And one day, trouble comes to the house of a simple fisherman - the Pechenegs kidnap his wife Olga. Where to look for it? Isn’t it at the slave trade in Constantinople - Constantinople, where the steppe inhabitants take Russian Polonyankas for sale? The path to Constantinople is not close and difficult. But the heroes of the novel by the famous Russian writer A. Volkov, the brave husband of Olga and her children - the smart, honest Zora and the beautiful Svetlana, who decided to rescue the captive, are not afraid of any danger…