About the book: 2024 / Five hundred years before the Great War. Escalot and Gorm are separated. Here, at the crossroads of centuries and cultures, the fields were sown with winter ideas of a single kingdom. They lay down in the ground with the armor and swords of the fallen. And all that remained was to wait for the steel crops to sprout... The lost court of Ilia I is increasingly looking like an image from the depths of centuries. Fairies come out of invisible castles, animated tanks scare those who did not believe in miracles... Too many heroes of present and past wars now do not know how to live in a world full of silence. The cycle about the Sleeping King is a series of works with classic plots of European literature, placed in the scenery of a universe reminiscent of our world in 1920-1940. Fans of the “Shadow and Bone” trilogy by Leigh Bardugo and the book series by George R.R. Martin “A Song of Ice and Fire” will like it. Maria Gurova is a graduate student at the Literary Institute. M. Gorky, director of the Rostov Theater of Poets, winner of the “Russian Rhymes” award in 2016. Published in the collections of Eksmo-AST, “Literary Gazette”, magazines “Youth”, “Literary Study”, “Southern Star”, “Moscow” and etc. Author of the “Frontline Brigade” projects (reconstruction of propaganda brigades and theaters during the Second World War) and the collection of modern military-historical poetry and essays “Eternal World War”».