About the book: year / “People and non-humans” is the first part of the novel “The Cursed Family”. The action covers real historical events: the struggle of the Don Cossacks with the Crimean and Nogai hordes, the Livonian War. However, the main characters of the novel are not Tsar Ivan the Terrible, not the King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Stefan Batory, or even the dashing robber chieftain Ivan Koltso, but simple Cossacks, true defenders of the Fatherland and the Orthodox faith. This is a story about eternal human passions, vices and virtues, especially clearly manifested in an era of great changes. Here is a book about the mysterious Russian soul, in which, according to one of the heroes, God and the devil get along quite peacefully.