In the eleventh century, the Arabs were replaced by a bloodthirsty, brave and insidious enemy - the Seljuk Turks. They will conquer the Armenians, defeat the Georgians, defeat the Byzantines and change the balance of power not only in Asia, but also in Europe. It is against the Seljuks that the Crusades will be organized, it is in the wars with them that the idea of ​ ​ aggressive expansion, covered by the false banner of faith, will take root in the West. In the battles in the Holy Land, the Teutonic Order will be born, which cut off Russia from the Baltic ports and for a long time posed a serious threat to it. The descendants of the knights of the order will become the elite of the Prussian officers, the best cadres of the Second and Third Reich, and Prussia itself, captured by the Teutons, in the nineteenth century will create an aggressive Germany, eager for world domination... Andrei expects to interrupt the chain of fatal events for both Byzantium and the future Russia. But for this he will have to clash with one of the best commanders of Islam - Sultan Alp-Arslan, the brave lion of the East...