The gods of the Forest Volga region. Traveling on old Russian borders

The book of the Nizhny Novgorod journalist of the Doctor of Philology Nikolai Morokhin talks about archaic beliefs and phenomena of today"s culture that embodied these beliefs, about the unfamiliar and intriguing pages of the medieval history of the North of the Nizhny Novgorod and Kostroma lands. Here, the flow of Slavic immigrants met his eastern neighbors - Mari and Merny. This meeting determined not only the ways of becoming the spiritual environment of the forest volgery, but also in many ways the fate of the emerging Russian ethnic group and the peoples living next to it in the Volga region. The book is addressed to a wide circle of readers interested in the history of the Russian province and peoples of the Fatherland