About the book: year / "... Mr. Pogodin published the history of Naples, Prussia, Sweden, and stopped there. Seeing that Mr. Pogodin’s enterprise was not destined to reach the desired end, the translator of “A Brief History of the Crusades” finally decided to publish his translation. One cannot but agree that in this way he rendered a great service to Russian literature. “History of the Crusades” by Michaud, very poorly translated into Russian, is very extensive and therefore does not eliminate the need for a more concise work on the same subject…»