On the picturesque bank of the Klyazma River stands a village with a slender white church and a wondrous old name Radul. Here the writer Georgy Nikolaevich rests his soul from the Moscow bustle, here in a quiet little light line by line his fascinating stories for children are born. But the guys themselves often knock on the door of a quiet house on the outskirts of the village to talk with a real writer, listen to his stories about Russian antiquity. And then one day it happened that Georgy Nikolaevich had to patronize a whole detachment left without a leader. An amazing variety of adventures and discoveries fell to the lot of the guys and their older friend... Expressive illustrations of the Honored Artist of Russia Anatoly Zinovievich Itkin will help the reader to vividly imagine the heroes and events of the book, to see the beauty of his native land in a new way.