The kingdom of the Slavs. Facts of great history. Orbini M.

Mavro Orbini - a Catholic monk, the author of this book, first published in 1601 in Italian - belonged to the culture of the West. But his book is a real hymn among the Slavs, solemn and pathetic, despite the fact that the author follows the millennium tradition of Western historiography. In this contradiction, the mystery of an unusual book lurks. Many of its primary sources are truly unique. In addition, the author - the Dalmatian humanist, the southern Slav - stubbornly defends the idea of ​​the origin of the ancestors of the “Slavic kind” from the Hyperborean North, the European Nord...

when the first edition of the book was published in Europe, scandal immediately erupted And the book was banned. The unique publication was translated in 1722, made by the outstanding Russian diplomat of the Petrine era Serb Savoy Lukich Raguzinsky-Vladimir-Wladislavich. The book is published in the version presented to modern literary norms. Following the commentaries and page notes will help the reader understand the historical study of the Dalmatian monk, written in the manner unusual for our time. Sensational and unusually large -scale, it does not refute, but, on the contrary, claims half -forgotten medieval certificates of the ancestors of the Slavs, finding unexpected analogies in bold hypotheses and discoveries of modern scientists. Published for the first time.