Srednevekovye zamok, gorod, derevnia i ikh obitateli - Ivanov K.P.

The book of Konstantin Ivanov is a kind of guide to medieval life. Fascinated by the author, the reader studies the structure of the castle, walks through the narrow city streets, looks into the pharmacy, the laboratory of the alchemist and the shops of artisans, enters the meeting of the city council, participates in the trial, turns out to be at a feast in the Baron's castle and learns a lot of curious about the menu and decoration of the table, is present at the initiation into knights, suddenly mixed into the crowd of beating religious fanatics, meets the robbers and inquisition, visits the house of the rich citizen and peasant backyard, receives invitations to jousting tournaments, weddings and village holidays, entertained by the game of stray actors - in short, falls into the cycle of everyday life of the Middle Ages ... Konstantin Ivanov (1858-1919) - historian and poet, director of the Imperial Nicholas Gymnasium in tsar's village and home teacher of children of the last Russian tsar, a brilliant connoisseur of the European Middle Ages.