The Iron Laurels of Rurik

An unusual story in plot and form transports the reader to the early years of the IX century, when the fate of Europe was being decided. The hero of the novel is a novice from one of the monasteries in... Constantinople, sent by the abbot to Italy. An astonishing twist of fate brings the novice and his unexpected companions - a Danish earl and a Celtic wandering bard - face to face with the powerful figures of the time: Charlemagne and the Byzantine Empress Irene, and then carries them far to the north, to Gardarika, to the lands of Novgorod. How God's Providence combines with God's permission in human life - this question becomes the main one for the hero of the novel, who witnesses the key events of that century