In fact, Ilya Muromets, Dobrynya Nikitich and Alyosha Popovich were not legendary heroes, but quite real vigilantes of Prince Vladimir Monomakh, and in reality everything happened completely differently from in epics. This historical novel makes a fairy tale come true, turning a myth into a living story. The book resurrects the "beautiful and furious world" of our warlike ancestors, who lived and died in such a way that epics were composed of them, and wrote their names "with iron and blood" not only in history, but also in the folk epic.