Valkyrie. Semenova M.

Maria Semenova - a Russian writer and a great master, a mythrapee who creates his worlds and describes them "with the accuracy of the ethnographer and the entertainment of the illusionist." Readers know and love her fantasy novels, and even the person who is not close to this genre has probably heard about the Wolfhound-a book that undoubtedly made a revolution in the domestic literature of the nineties and has awakened great interest in ancient Russian history. Perhaps this is the greatest merit of Maria Semenova, who, in addition to fantasy, wrote the popular science encyclopedia “We are Slavs!”, A number of historical novels, stories, essays and retelling pagan myths. Some of these books - by the way, orienting the reader to a real cultural heritage - waited many years in the wings. According to Maria Vasilievna herself, she was very fond of the history of the Vikings and "together with the Vikings came to Rus'." Indeed, two topics clearly sound in her work: Slavic and Scandinavian. The first of them, mainly, is dedicated to the Valkyrie collection, uniting the novel of the same name, several stories and artistic retelling of pagan myths “Duel with a snake”. The reader will make a metaphysical journey into the past: the air of mysterious antiquity will breathe in, will become an eyewitness to the events of a thousand-year ago, he will hear a speech in which no, and the forgotten word will slip through-and the world will appear before him that our distant ancestors saw him.