The book of historian Alexander Радаева "Parnassian пересмешник: short stories from history of world culture" connects on the pages two on the face of it incompatible properties are entertaining and познавательность. Before a reader the surprizing world of strange occurences will be opened, at times, it would seem, not so meaningful, but very interesting. In a book the wide scope of rare and not popular information is given from Antiquity to our days, historical incidents are interpreted and in the everyday use errors clear up. Ancient customs and statues of Приапа on the Russian vegetable garden, engraving with witches and habits of prophets, cradles of royal heirs and artefacts of manage of history, religious art, a museum to rareness and biographic riddles are laid in the colourful recital of that, how popular cultural паттерны was formed, and a folk in-domestic culture became founding for literary plots and stereotypes. A book is illustrated by reproductions of the known pictures, images of architectural monuments and шедевральных sculptures, colourful pictures and authorial photos.A publishing design is stored in the format of PDF A4.