Do not wake sleeping demons. Characters of folk legends and heroes of real history

Who is the folklore given and why does this name still sound in the Carpathian tunes? By whom or what was the Gogol Bursak Homa Brutus destroyed? Which of the Russian classics was forgotten to include among the initiators of domestic horror literature? How did the life of the early Christian St. Margarita responded in the narratives of the new and modern times? What exotic methods of hardening of steel blades were used by ancient gunsmiths? The first section of the book answers these questions. Its second part is dedicated to outstanding figures of princely Rus" and tsarist Russia: Vsevolod a Big Nest, his wife Maria Shvarnovna, Alexander Nevsky, Vasily Golitsyn, Fedor Golovin. Based on the sources and works of researchers, essays and articles are written in a living language and are available to the wide reader