The prose masterpiece of the people's writer of Czecho-Slovakia Vladislav Vančura (1891–1942) - “Pictures from the History of the Czech People” - a work that recreates the spirit of several centuries of national history, in which the master combines the traditional Czech literature genre of historical chronicle with concentrated dramatic action novellas. By its monumentality, combined with tragedy and humor, historical accuracy and poetry, romantic pathos, this chronicle of the past takes its rightful place in world literature. The first volume includes “Pictures” - Ancient Homeland, State Samo, The Emergence of the Czech State, Great Moravia, Renovator, Cosmas , Slaves, Peasant Prince. Published in Russian for the first time, on the 100th anniversary of the writer’s birth.