About the book: 2004 / Here it is, epic Rus', immense! The same one that is sung in the songs of wandering guslars. It’s been a long time since the Koshchei Immortals and the Gorynych Snakes have stopped scaring the honest people. They live in small, scattered principalities and do not know grief. It would seem that everything is going well, but... Well, the appanage princes just don’t want to come to an agreement among themselves. Various enemies do not want a quick unification of the racial lands. Distant America is weaving insidious intrigues. The elusive Pashka Rasstebaev is inciting the people to great unrest...Where is the hero who will save Mother Rus' from damned misfortunes? Is he sleeping on the stove and not knowing anything? And is he really a hero? Oh, great changes are coming to epic Rus'!