Divorce, according to many, including very wise people, is a great blessing, and freedom of divorce helps strengthen the family. Written sources from different eras have preserved descriptions of many different types of divorces. And the legislation devoted to this issue is in no way inferior to the legislation on marriage. Moreover, precisely because in most nations it has always been much more difficult to dissolve a marriage than to enter into one, divorce proceedings were often accompanied by original legal tricks and non-trivial solutions. Olga Kolobova and Oleg Ivanov, working under the common pseudonym Oleg Ivik, have already written a book “ History of weddings." The book “The History of Divorce” continues the theme begun.