About the book: 1976 / The book tells about travel in the 7th–13th centuries, about the difficulties of long journeys and overcoming them, about the desire of people of that era to push the boundaries of what they knew peace. Medieval explorers carried beliefs, fashions, craft traditions, works of art and written monuments from country to country. Their activities contributed to the mutual enrichment of cultures and the creation of a certain unity of the medieval culture of Eurasia. The author draws on extensive material from the fields of literature, archeology, and art history, which testifies to the close contacts of different peoples and the significant role that the medieval “Argonauts” played in this process.V. P. Darkevich - Candidate of Historical Sciences, specialist in the history of medieval culture, author of the books: “Works of Western artistic craft in Eastern Europe” (M., 1966); “The Ways of Medieval Masters” (Moscow, 1972); “Secular Art of Byzantium” (Moscow, 1975); "Art Metal of the East" (M., 1976).