Before you is another volume of historical novels translated into Russian for the first time by the famous French contemporary writer and scientist, winner of many prestigious literary prizes and awards, Georges Bordonov. “The past is not a pile of cooled ashes,” says one of the heroes of his novel “The Spears of Jerusalem.” “. - This is a flower that opens from a gentle touch. This is the thrill of darkness in the thick of the forest, sighs of hope and disappointment." The author sweeps away the ashes of oblivion from the past and finds in the depths of eight centuries ago, in the era of the Crusades, the romantic and sad story of the Templar monk Gio, the old knight Anselen and his young daughter Jeanne. In 1096 year, thousands of knights with scarlet crosses on white cloaks moved along the paths trodden by pilgrims from Europe to Palestine. They conquered the Holy Land, Jerusalem, the Holy Sepulcher from the “infidels”, built their temples and fortresses there, created kingdoms and militant brotherhoods of the monastic Knights Hospitaller (Johnnite) and Templar (Templar) orders. But the writer does not touch upon this victorious period of the Crusades. His heroes live when, under the blows of the Muslim ruler Saladin, the state of the Christian conquerors began to collapse and Jerusalem fell. At this disastrous time, the flower of love between the beautiful Jeanne and the young and brave King Baudouin, stricken by leprosy, opened...