About the book: 2011 / The triumph of Rus' after the victory on the Kulikovo field turned out to be short-lived - just two years later Khan Tokhtamysh burned Moscow, and thirteen years later the a new terrible threat - the invincible hordes of Tamerlane were approaching from the depths of Asia. It seemed that the tragedy of a century and a half ago was being repeated and Rus' would face even worse devastation than in the time of Batu, but at the last moment Tamerlane turned away from the Russian borders, which was perceived in Moscow as a miraculous salvation and God’s intercession... Despite all the dangers and adversities that continued princely strife and the Horde yoke, the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries was not a time of impenetrable darkness, as one might think after watching the famous film “Andrei Rublev,” but the beginning of the dawn and ascent of Russian civilization. And the main exponent of this turning point era of bold hopes and grandiose achievements was the legendary icon painter of Ancient Rus', whose youth fell on the brink of centuries. This book tells about the formation of a genius and the awakening of his immortal Gift, about how the unknown god Andreika turned into the great Andrei Rublev.