The library of the project “History of the Russian State” is the best monuments of historical literature recommended by Boris Akunin, which reflect the biography of our country from its very origins. This book is a fascinating journey through 1185, new dizzying turns of the Great Silk Road: Rus' and Europe , then still closely connected, England and the Holy Land... The goal of the famous historian and writer Igor Mozheiko is not to recreate a strictly scientific picture of the world, but to talk about the creators and victims of history. Before us, Prince Igor, Frederick Barbarossa, Richard the Lionheart and their other legendary or forgotten contemporaries who suffered, loved, feuded and died eight hundred years ago come to life...