The ashes of the power. Iutin V.A.

The seventies of the XVI century. The endless Livonian war squeezes the last juices from the Russian state, but the sovereign John Vasilievich still dreams of creating the empire “from sea to sea”. Everything changes in an instant when the enemy Commonwealth is headed by a talented military leader Stefan Batoriy, prudently destroying the Russian army in bloody battles, and the king’s beloved eldest son is at the center of the conspiracy against his own father. The life of John is at risk, but the main thing is the fate of the power he created, which can soon turn to the ashes.