Legends about Sicily. Talalay M.

An unusual book about Sicily offers different “keys” to the development of the island-through the first-a-time hagographical legends of local saints who had a pronounced Byzantine-eastern appearance, as well as through the anthology of the Russian presence-aristocrats, diplomats, artists, who had first represented by the Russian reader. writers.

A special emphasis is given on the two main points of Russian-Sicilian relations-the stay of the imperial family in the Palermo family in 1845-1846 and the heroic participation of sailors in the salvation of the victims of earthquakes in Messin in 1908.