About the book: 2015 / The book by Konstantin Ivanov is a kind of guide to medieval life. Captivated by the author, the reader studies the structure of the castle, walks along the narrow city streets, looks into a pharmacy, an alchemist's laboratory and craftsmen's shops, enters a meeting of the city council, participates in a trial, finds himself at a feast in a baronial castle and learns a lot of interesting things about the menu and table decorations , is present at the knighting, unexpectedly gets mixed up in a crowd of religious fanatics flagellating themselves, meets robbers and the Inquisition, visits the house of a rich city dweller and a peasant farmstead, receives invitations to knightly tournaments, weddings and village holidays, is entertained by the play of traveling actors - in a word, he ends up in the cycle of everyday life in the Middle Ages...Konstantin Ivanov (1858-1919) - historian and poet, director of the Imperial Nikolaev Gymnasium in Tsarskoe Selo and home teacher of the children of the last Russian Tsar, a brilliant expert on the European Middle Ages.