About the book: year / European aggression against Russia did not begin yesterday, not under Hitler and Napoleon - this conflict of civilizations is soon 1000 years old. The “Crusade to the East” was declared by German military monastic orders at the beginning of the 13th century. The Order of the Sword was succeeded by the Teutonic and Livonian Orders, knights with red crosses on their cloaks were replaced by knights with black crosses - and there was no end to the war. Lake Peipsi, Dorpat, Rakovor, Narva, Pskov, Novgorod - fierce battles raged on the northwestern borders for 350 years. How did Rus' resist between two fires, against East and West? Who was the most terrible enemy of the Russian Land - the Crusaders, the Horde or the Novgorod “democracy”, which prevented the princes from putting an end to the German threat once and for all? And what price must be paid to stop the European “Drang nach Osten”? In this book you will find comprehensive information about all the wars of Rus' against the Crusaders - from Vladimir of Pskov and Alexander Nevsky to Ivan the Terrible.