Myths and legends about flowers

The book of the famous writer and botanist N. Zolotnitsky, written at the beginning of the last century, sets out full -fledged and interesting legends about colors, covering the history of different peoples and different centuries. Here you will find the ancient myths and beliefs of the Northern Germans and Slavs, the traditions of China and Japan, the love story of Napoleon and Josephine, Henry IV and simple shepherdies, learn about the war of scarlet and white roses, about tulip fever in Holland, about the “cult of the white rose”, about the “cult of the white rose”, about The invented by Nicholas I for his wife Alexandra Fedorovna, read the legends about the elves sleeping in the cups of flowers, mermaids, woven water lilies woven into the braids ... - many beautiful myths and legends, in which, as in a drop of water, the history of mankind is reflected. This book presents selected chapters from the essays of N. Zolotnitsky, telling about the most popular colors: roses, lilies, cloves, peonies, tulips