Myths and legends about flowers

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The book of the famous writer and botanist N. Zolotnitsky, written at the beginning of the last century, contains full-fledged and most interesting legends about flowers, covering the history of different peoples and different centuries. Here you will find ancient myths and beliefs of the northern Germans and Slavs, the legends of China and Japan, the love story of Napoleon and Josephine, Henry IV and a simple shepherdess, learn about the War of the Scarlet and White Roses, about tulip fever in Holland, about the "cult of the White Rose", invented by Nicholas I for his wife Alexandra Fedorovna, you will read stories about elves sleeping in cups of flowers, mermaids weaving water lilies into their braids… - a lot of wonderful myths and legends, which, like a drop of water, reflect the history of mankind. This book presents selected chapters from the work of N. Zolotnitsky, telling about the most popular flowers: roses, lilies, carnations, peonies, tulips ...

Barcode: 9785001851493 SKU: 70107990 Categories: ,
Publication language: Russian

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