About the book: year / "Washed in Blood. Boris and Gleb." Boris Tumasov’s new novel “Washed in Blood” is a bright epic canvas that reliably recreates the controversial historical situation and political atmosphere of life in Kievan Rus in the last third of the 9th - early 11th centuries. At the center of the story is the figure of Grand Duke Vladimir, who defends the unity of the Russian land, and his two sons, Boris and Gleb, who later became the first saints of the Russian Orthodox Church."Mstislav". Writer Boris Tumasov dedicated his novel about Kievan Rus of the first half of the 11th century. The central character of the novel is the Prince of Tmutarakan and Chernigov Mstislav, one of the sons of the Grand Duke of Kyiv Vladimir I Svyatoslavich. "Prisoners". In 1264, Grand Duke Alexander Yaroslavich, nicknamed Nevsky, died. And almost immediately the fragile peace he had preserved between the Russian principalities and the Horde cracked - the struggle for the great table in Vladimir and control over Novgorod began. The main opponents were the sons of Alexander Nevsky - Dmitry and Andrey. Gradually, their uncles and nephews got involved in the strife, and blood flowed again across the Russian land to the delight of its enemies. Contents: 1. Blood washed. Boris and Gleb 2. Mstislav 3. Prisoners