The famous author-historian Vadim Telitsyn joined the dispute between supporters and opponents of the Tatar-Mongol yoke, who presents his version of relations between Russia and the Golden Horde. There is no place in it for slaughtered and bloodless Russia, groaning under the yoke of "evil Tatars." On the contrary: Novgorod ushkuniki, walking along the Volga, regularly rob Horde cities and smash Tatar detachments, and the Khan of the Golden Horde writes complaints to the Prince of Moscow with requests to calm down the walking Russian freemen. The book is based on historical facts, documents and annals.