The Lord of the rivers. Iutin V.A.

The last years of the reign of John the Terrible. The Russian kingdom, surrounded by enemies, stands on the verge of death. The Poles and the Swedes capture one city after another, and the sovereign is trying at all costs to complete the protracted Livonian war. Behind this, he called to him the papal ambassador of Possevino, so that he reconciled John with enemies. But the legate has his own mission - to turn Russia into Catholicism. How to protect your land and faith from the attacks of enemies, when the forces and life itself are already running out? Meanwhile, the Cossack detachment under the command of Yermak is floating along the Ural rivers to the Siberian land, so that, not yet knowing him, to bring the sovereign his last victory and stay forever in folk memory.

This book is a continuation of the novel “Ashes of the Power ", Previously published in the same series, and completes the story of the era of John the Terrible.