The book includes collections of stories by the famous Serbian writer Milorad Pavic (1929–2009) “The Iron Curtain” and “The Horses of St. Mark.” In these texts, behind everyday life there emerges a magical side of reality that goes beyond the usual, and the surrounding world is endowed with new colors and new meanings. (Letter to the Dead) Compiled primarily on the basis of information from a charter issued in 993 in the Lavra of St. Athanasius on Athos, about the purchase the island of Gymnopelagision, which, together with the monastery located there, the above-mentioned Elder Athanasius bought from the monks Cosmas and Luke for seventy nomism [15] Compiled mainly on the basis of the charges of heresy brought in 1077 in Constantinople against John Italus, a professor at the University of Constantinople, and his followers