About the book: 2021 / The very beginning of the emergence of Christianity in Rus'. The blacksmith's son Ivan goes to the city for a fair on his father's orders. On the way, the young man is caught in the night, and he has to spend the night in an unfamiliar forest. He accidentally puts on a fortune teller's wreath and gains amazing powers. The fortune teller predicts that Ivan will soon meet his bride, whom he will see in the water, and tries to warn him about his future fate, but Ivan asks not to predict the future for him. Will Ivan recognize his bride, and will his unusual abilities help him with this? The cover design uses a fragment of a painting by N.A. Bogatova "Beekeeper""