About the book: 2017 / General anesthesia became a gateway to another world for Andrei Zverev. Having come to his senses, he discovers that he is on a boyar estate not far from Velikie Luki and that everyone here considers him the son of boyar Pavel Lisin. After a short period of confusion, he tries to apply his knowledge of a twenty-first century man in order to gain fame and glory. But Andrei soon learns that he fell into the past not by the whim of nature, but by the efforts of the unsociable sorcerer Lyutobor, who lives in a nearby swamp. Andrei demands the sorcerer to return him back to the future. If only he knew what this wish would lead to! Along with the princely title, Andrei receives an estate in the Sakulsky churchyard, on the shores of Lake Ladoga. Alas, his estate ends up in the way of the Swedish troops rushing to the Valaam Monastery. From Novgorod, instead of help, an offer comes to participate in a conspiracy against Ivan the Terrible: Prince Vladimir Staritsky mistook a migrant from the southern border for a Lithuanian supporter. The choice is not easy: either return to your cozy twenty-first century, or fight to the death against hundreds of enemies in one of the most remote corners of still very small Rus'.