"It is in our time that the future of states and dynasties for the coming centuries is being determined," said Cardinal Mazarini's spy to the young nobleman Pavel Moshkovsky (the future Hetman Tetera). And he is right - the middle of the XVII century. not only opened the gates of the New Age of European history, but also drew the apocalyptic outlines of the world in the twilight of which we now live. The dark shadow of Eva's firstborn rises above the last four centuries, says Vladimir Eshkilev in the historical novel "Cain", the second in the trilogy "Cursed Hetmans".
", And many new ones who had to live and work during the years of the Ruin. During these turbulent times, the hetmanate of Teteri, one of the most stipulated and disgraced rulers of Ukraine. Eshkilev offers his own - uncanonical and unexpected - vision of this historical figure. And complements the artistic story with a kind of "encyclopedia" of political, diplomatic and occult processes and events of the XVII century. And not only those that are familiar to the reader through chronicles, memoirs and textbooks.
