About the book: 2009 / Summer. Heat. Village. And......and even in a nightmare, the future student of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Leshka, could not imagine everything that would happen on one of the hot August days in the Black Swamp, about which the worst rumors had long been circulating among local residents. Captivity, slavery, escape - and the gradual realization that an incredible gap in time had thrown the young man into the darkest Middle Ages. However, Alexey did not lose heart, having found friends, freedom and - it seems - love... And all this - in Constantinople, the capital of the once great, but now declining Byzantium - the Roman Empire. The most beautiful city, the most beautiful girls, a position in one of the government departments... and - intrigue, intrigue, intrigue... From an official, a young man turns into a prisoner, and then into a border guard warrior - an acrite…