Duchess Olga. Winter throne. Porcerian E.

Each book of Elizabeth of the butler is an exciting adventure, the world of Ancient Rus', which you fall directly from the pages of the novel. Her heroes evoke involuntary respect, their actions force to worry and rejoice, and their destinies excite so that it is impossible to tear themselves away without reading to the end.

on a historical basis, the book covers the period from 941 to 943: The end of the first campaign Rus' on the Greeks, the preparation of a new campaign and the second trip of the 943 years, when the Russian army reached the Danube and there was met by the ambassadors of the novel with the ransom and proposals of the world. But neither the military nor diplomatic successes come by themselves, and all this required a considerable effort from the princely couple and its entourage, and the main characters had to go through personal dramas, each of their own.

... After the defeat in the Bosphorus, the prince Ingvar returns to Kyiv with a new wife, a relative of the Bulgarian Tsar Peter. Elga offended by this step refuses to live with her husband and announces that henceforth her throne will be in Vyshgorod. Only in winter, when Ingvar is in a pole, does it take his place in Kyiv. The gap between the prince and the princess threatens the collapse of the entire power created by their marriage. Especially despite the fact that the closest ally of Ingvara - Mistina Sveneldich - acts as his opponent not only in terms of influence on the squad, but also in the struggle for Princess’s love.