About the book: year / The first book in the series of novels about the birth of Russia. Among the expanses of the Baltic, on the island of Ruyan, there once stood a city-temple - Arkona. The best warriors of Pomerania guarded this temple, therefore even the fearless Scandinavian Vikings, whose very name made all of Europe tremble, avoided clashes with the knights of Arkona. Some called them wounds, others called them curses, but these warriors became known to us under the name of the Varangians “Rus”».