Lame Timur. Borodin S.P.

The city of Samarkand is calm. The old Timur, the great conqueror, recently returned here from a campaign in India and is now resting from the war-with the help of thousands of masters, whom he drove from different countries, is engaged in decorating the city, and in his free time he teaches the minds of his grandchildren. So the days pass, but not enough rest. Soon a new campaign, but where - no one knows. Only the merchants are whispering at the Samarkand bazaar, they discuss the price ”on the skin, because the army of Timur is great, and in a new campaign, new shoes will be useful to everyone. The price of the skin will rise - you can get it off. And at a distance, Russian captives, brought by Timur to Samarkand from the Horde, sigh-they do not want to make chain mail for Timurov the troops, but it is necessary.

the novel “Lame Timur” is the first part of the famous trilogy of the writer-historian Sergey Borodin “Star Above Samarkand ".