Іван Білик "Похорон богів" (2*) (Роман)

The legendary Ivan Bilyk is an unsurpassed master of historical prose, whose every novel destroyed many other, sometimes hostile, myths, creating instead his own Ukrainian Myth, which no one has been able to refute. Bilyk was fluent in Bulgarian (and Old Bulgarian), lived in Bulgaria for a long time, and had access to local libraries and archives. That is why his visions of historical events and characters are always well-founded and logical. For example, we are all used to thinking that Oleg the Prophetic was a bachelor and had no descendants. But Bilyk in The Funeral of the Gods shows that Princess Olha, Asmus, and Svend, were his children. That Olha had nothing to do with Bulgaria except that she was married to the disgraced Bulgarian prince Volodymyr, after whose execution she began to claim the Bulgarian throne...
Many disproven myths, on the wreckage of which his vision of Kyiv in the times from Oleh to Volodymyr emerges! The times when the Varangians, having seized the Kyivan throne, transformed the state of the Kievans on the model of the Frankish empire.