Prince Serebryany. Eternal Stories

1565. A young voivode, Prince Nikita Serebryany, returns from the Livonian War and faces the lawlessness of the Oprichnina, which has established itself in the state during his absence. Unable to believe that such cruelty occurs with the king's tacit consent, he sets off to Alexandrov Sloboda to stand before Ivan the Terrible himself… But before the prince learns another bitter news: his beloved has become the wife of another.
The novel, which underwent three reprints during the author's lifetime and was translated into five languages, is a poignant statement about the horrors of tyranny, about fidelity to ideals, to one’s word — and to one’s own heart.