Sveneld. The Path of Silver

Every book by Elizaveta Dvoretskaya is an exciting adventure, a world of Ancient Rus, which you enter straight from the pages of the novel. Her heroes evoke involuntary respect, their actions make you experience emotions of joy, and their fates are so stirring that it's impossible to tear yourself away without reading to the end. In the spring of 914, a united army of the Russian lands returns from a campaign to the Khazar Sea with a considerable loot. Violating the treaty, the cavalry of the khagan-bek will attack them at the camp near Itil, forcing them to defend their loot and their lives in brutal battles. But even for those who managed to survive, the difficulties are just beginning. The southern part of the army, led by Prince Amund Yotun of Plesnetsk, attempts to fight their way through the familiar route, across the portage from the Volga to the Don. The northern army, headed by two brothers from Holmgar, Sveneld and Godred, must go in another direction, into the unknown. To return home, they will need to find a completely new path to their homeland through the territories of unfamiliar peoples. And at home, Sveneld awaits Vitislava - his young wife. Three years ago, when he captured the daughter of the Veligrad prince as war loot, she was only eleven years old. While he was on the foreign campaign, she has grown up and become a young woman. When Sven returns, they will finally have to truly get to know each other.