Dobiash-Rozhdestvenskaya O. With a cross and a sword. The Adventures of Richard I the Lionheart. Afterword B. S. Kaganovich. - M.: Science. Main editorial office of oriental literature, 1991. - 112 p. (ISBN: 5-02-017271-5)Before the readers - a book by O.A. Dobiash-Rozhdestvenskaya, one of the most talented Russian historians of the Western Middle Ages, which, despite its small volume, represents a fundamental historical study and at the same time a work remarkable in “intrigue,” composition and style. The author, using a language of amazing brightness and richness of colors, recreates a visible picture of the historical past, gives an excellent psychological characterization of Richard the Lionheart (“a dramatic figure of a brilliant adventurer and fearless wanderer across land and seas, a life full of dizzying successes and fatal failures”). The book will be of interest to both medieval historians and a wide range of readers interested in history.