About the book: year / “...Despite its purely Russian name, “stilts” were called differently in the old days. There is a book entitled “Ithica and Politics, or Moral Philosophy,” with many engravings made on copper. It was printed in Lvov in 1760, and on page 51 there is a man on stilts, looking a lot like Mr. Dornon: he is wearing light ankle boots, diagonal pantaloons, a short sheepskin coat and a round cap…»