In search of a fictional kingdom. Gumilev L.N.

Lev Nikolaevich Gumilyov (1912 - 1992) - an outstanding Russian historian, ethnologist and geographer, poet and translator with Farsi, founder of the theory of passionarity, developer of the original concept of ethnogenesis and adherent of the Eurasian idea.

in the XII century in the XII century The times of the Crusades arose, and later the legend of the strong and rich Christian kingdom, created somewhere in distant Asia, the presbyter John, the heir to the Apostle Thomas.

Is this really fiction? Did the state of eastern Christians actually exist or is it only a beautiful legend of a dream? And who was the prototype of the king-priest who defeated the powerful army of Muslims?

about the search for this legendary kingdom, Lev Gumilev writes in his book, at the same time fascinatingly and in detail about the life of the peoples of Central Asia in the 9th-13th centuries.