About the book: 2000 / The heroes of the story are our distant ancestors, the ancient Russians. The struggle of darkness and light, good and evil, paganism and Christianity - Kievan Rus on the threshold of the greatest event that providentially transformed its destiny - Epiphany. The book belongs to the pen of the spiritual writer A. F. Platonova, with whose work the reader is already well familiar from the publications of this series . At the beginning of the century, she published the Orthodox children's magazine “Forget-Me-Not”, was published in the magazines “Russian Pilgrim”, “Voice of the Church”, and A. F. Platonova’s stories were included in the collection “Forget-Me-Not” (Father’s House Publishing House, 1999). After the revolution, she took monastic vows, and in the 30s she was imprisoned in a camp. “To awaken and strengthen in children the noble aspirations of the spirit and love for everything native,” this blessed goal of the magazine published by the writer was the goal of her own work. These same words are the epigraph to this story..