God's nobles. Akunov V.

There is an extraordinary, not explaining rational arguments, attractiveness in the idea of ​​spiritual-people, military-monastic, ministry. The image of an unshakable stubborn warrior of Christ, sacrificing himself to the flame faith in the Lord and Mother of God, sinking in the famous epic poems and poems; This image is often covered with exalted legends about the secret, secret knowledge gained by knights in the east in the era of the Crusades, in which almost all spiritual and pyzar orders arose. Glorified by his military valor, his mysterious, tragic fate of the knight of Christ and the temple, the hospital and St. John, St. Lazarus, the Holy Sepulcher of the Lord, Sword and many others appear before the reader on the pages of the new book of Wolfgang Akunov in the most difficult historical conflicts, conflicts and interweaving of that The era when peoples and religions, highly spiritual aspirations and political calculations, courage and treachery came together in a brutal confrontation. This book itself, in a certain sense, continues the centuries -old traditions of knightly literature, with its epic scale and romantic intransigence of good and evil, truth and lies, light and darkness, introducing the reader into the unusual world in which prayer work was equivalent to a military feat, according to Maxim: “May your prayer be like a sword, and a sword is like a prayer”...