About the book: 2012 / TWO BESTSELLERS IN ONE VOLUME! The main books of the leading historian of Pagan Rus', dedicated to the greatest Russian heroes - Svyatoslav the Great and Evpatiy Kolovrat. “I’M COMING FOR YOU!” - these proud words are inscribed in our history in gold: military honor did not allow Prince Svyatoslav to go on a campaign without warning, without posing an open challenge to his enemies. The last Sovereign of the Pagan era, the greatest commander of the Middle Ages, comparable only to Alexander, Hannibal and Caesar, an unrivaled warrior, who was nicknamed the Brave and considered a demigod, Svyatoslav carried Russian banners from the Caucasus to the Balkans, crushed the predatory Khazar Khaganate and terrified the mighty Byzantium. Even after his death, the Pecheneg murderers, raising a cup made from his skull, proclaimed: “Let our children be like him!” Three centuries later, the warlike spirit of Svyatoslav was resurrected in Evpatiya Kolovrat, who called upon the ancient pagan gods against Batu’s hordes. The steppe inhabitants defeated a handful of Russian braves, only by throwing an entire tumen against Kolovrat’s squad - a hundred against one - they were able to kill Evpatiy himself only from battering machines, and Batu was informed that the dead had risen against the Horde. This is how the heroes of the Russian Land have greeted invaders from time immemorial - “BY DEATH TRAMPLED DEATH»!