Trilogy - Genghis Khan. Batu. To the Last Sea

Historical novels by the Russian Soviet writer Vasily Yan

• «Genghis Khan» (1939),
• «Batu» (1942),
• «To “the Last Sea”» (1955). 

 In the trilogy «The Mongol Invasion» tells about the conquest campaigns of the Mongol-Tatar tribes in Central Asia and Europe in the first half of the 13th century. With fire and sword paving the way from east to west, the hordes of nomads under the leadership of Genghis Khan subdue the Khwarezmian kingdom, and a decade and a half later, the armies of his grandson, Khan Batu, march through the Polovtsian steppes, the Volga region, and the Caucasus to Rus, fragmented into separate principalities, seizing Ryazan, Moscow, Vladimir, Kiev, and other Russian cities, after which they rush into the countries of Central Europe, to the Atlantic Ocean, to create an empire stretching from sea to sea… The brutal and bloody clashes on the attacked lands, the heroic defense of besieged cities, the advice of the great khan and popular assemblies – in this kaleidoscopic change of pictures and events, a powerful whirlpool of history manifests itself, sweeping away both all-powerful rulers and ordinary mortals, individual people and entire nations…