They overthrew the hated Khazar yoke and became princes of Kyiv. They defeated the warlike Magyars and challenged the powerful Byzantium. However, the campaign of Askold and Dir to Constantinople ended in disaster - in 866, a huge Russian fleet was scattered and sunk by a storm, and the princes themselves were captured, from which they could only be released, having adopted Christianity together with the squad. But in victories, and in defeats, in troubles and joys, the twin princes remained faithful to the military brotherhood - and died in one day and hour, treacherously beaten by the warriors of the Leading Oleg. Bloody slaughter and hand-to-hand combat, campaigns and sieges, betrayals and conspiracies, love and hatred - in a new historical novel from the author of the best-selling books "Prince Rurik" and "Prince Igor."