About the book: year / Order courtly mannerists was created at the end of 1988 by Grand Master Vadim Stepantsev, Grand Prior Andrei Dobrynin, Commander Dmitry Bykov (left the Order in 1992), Archcardinal Victor Pelenyagre (expelled in 2001 on charges of plagiarism), Grand Chancellor Alexander Sevastyanov. Later, Alexander Skiba, Alexander Tenishev, and Alexander Vulykh joined the Order. According to the Order's manifesto, "courtly mannerism aims to express triumphant hedonism in the most sophisticated examples of literature" so that the art of poetry would be "raised to the heights of delightful small talk, which it was in the salons of the reign of Louis the Sun and later, up to the infamous era of the “widow” of Robespierre».