The time will come, and Tmutarakan will become part of Russia. But now it is impossible to keep Samkerts-Tamatarch captured by the Russians of Prince Oleg of Kyiv. Several hundred Rus and Normans cannot resist the thousandth armies. The only question is who will be the first to capture it: the Byzantines or the Khazars. The former prince-governor Sergei, and now the prince's youth Vartislav perfectly understands this. And he is stubbornly looking for an answer to the question: why did Oleg need Samkerts? But first, Sergei will have to solve the problem "simpler": how can they all survive in the impending battle of the titans?