Dmitry Donskoy. Borodin S.P.

XIV century. Prince Dmitry Ivanovich builds new defensive walls in Moscow, preparing to resist the horde. Special concerns about the Tynitsky tower, and so that no one gives the secrets that she stores, Dmitry ordered all the masons who built this tower to be taken to the forest and kill. Only one of the masters - Cyril - escaped. And he hid the anger at the prince. And later he saw, hiding from the prince of people, which was among the people the same embittered, tolerant of oppression from power. Someone is offended by the boyar, someone on the monastery. Yes, and not only that is the matter! Ryazan residents do not like Moscow. And the Ryazan Prince Oleg does not like Prince Dmitry himself. Will everyone be able to forget the old scores among themselves in order to speak together against the Horde on the Kulikovo field at the decisive hour?

This is the plot of the novel “Dmitry Donskoy” by the famous writer-historian Sergei Borodin (1902–1974).