A televisional serial "Abbey of Даунтон" purchased the deserved popularity due to a carefully thought out scenario, excellent game of actors, historical suits and interiors, but main - to the carefully recreated spirit of epoch of beginning of XX of century.Life in Great Britain of that epoch was full contradictions. A country with success mastered the new technologies based on a pair and electricity, and in the same time greater part able to work population worked not on a production, and by a maid in private houses. Women were surrounded by awe, but here they were deprived civil laws. Poor men starved to death, and an aristocracy did not live so long to fifty from too abundant and fat food.About that, how these and many other contradictions of everyday life of englishmen were reflected in a tele-serial "Abbey Даунтон", what masters of the cinema created him, what actors carried out leading roles in him, told in a new book "Abbey of Даунтон. History of pride and prejudices".