About the book: 2008 / The son of the Przemysl prince Rostislav Volodarevich lived an amazing life, unusual for “ordinary” Rurikovichs. Expelled from his lands by his neighbors for his violent and quarrelsome disposition, Ivan Rostislavich was hired into military service by one or another Grand Duke, entered into alliances with the Polovtsians, led gangs of robbers, trying at all costs to regain the lost thrones in Zvenigorod and Galich.