PARNASS Mockingberry. Novels from the history of world culture

The book of historian Alexander Radaev “The Parnassian Mockingbird: Novels from the History of World Culture” combines on his pages two at first glance incompatible properties - entertaining and cognitiveness. The reader will open an amazing world of strange incidents, sometimes, it would seem, not so significant, but very interesting. The book gives a wide coverage of rare and little -known information from antiquity to the present day, historical incidents are interpreted and common misconceptions are clarified. Ancient customs and statues of Priap in a Russian garden, engravings with witches and the habits of prophets, cradles of royal heirs and artifacts of the speakers of history, religious art, museum rarities and biographical puzzles fit into a colorful story about how popular cultural patterns were formed, and folk subject-being were formed Culture became the basis for literary plots and stereotypes. The book is illustrated by reproductions of famous paintings, images of architectural monuments and masterpieces, colorful drawings and copyright photographs