The Middle Ages: Alexander Sheps, Fatima Khadueva, Nikol Kuznetsova, Anna Pronina

Anna Pronina, a journalist, writer and collector of playing cards, conducted a real investigation to find out as much as possible about the history of the Middle Ages. What did you play in the walls of ancient castles? How did ordinary citizens have fun? How did excitement and games change the states of states?

Particularly attention is paid to playing cards, since not so many information has been preserved about them to this day. The author understands who and when they came up with, why they are called “devilish pictures”, as the card symbolism speaks about.

You will learn from the book:

-Why in the early Christian temples in the plots of murals There are card suit;

-as the pictures from playing cards fell into sacred books and vice versa;

-ka in the Middle Ages the children spent their leisure;

-What is more In total, it was amused by adults in the Middle Ages;

-in what games of the Middle Ages can be played today;

-A also: signs, fortune telling, superstition from the best psychics of the country.

Interview with the medium Alexander Sheps, clairvoyant Nikol Kuznetsova, Tarologist Anton Mamon, clairvoyant Fatima Khadueva; Grand Master Taro Elsa Khapatnyukovskaya, artist Alexei Orleansky, Gypsy Azu Petrenko, collector Eduard Schweigert and others.