Silver ring of Russia. Legends of ancient cities. Lukin E.V.

The book of the writer and historian Evgeny Lukin sends us on the twenty great cities of the “Silver Ring of Russia”: from the old Ladoga and Novgorod, the first capitals of the Russian state, the birthplace of Santa Claus - Veliky Ustyug, Pskov, Ivan - Valaama before Arkhangelsk and St. Petersburg.

“Silver Ring of Russia”-the northern heart of our country, with each of the cities of which many legends, legends and myths are associated. It is here that the sources of the Russian land are located, it is here that the Russian state was born - and here we will find the clue to the “riddles of the Russian soul” so amazing foreigners. About the holy ascetics and brave pioneers of the Russian North - all this will reveal to readers the books of folk legends and traditions, annals and lives, as well as Scandinavian sagas, Finnish runes, ancient chronicles and legends.