Black Legend

The book includes works LN Gumilyov devoted to the issue of prejudice to the nomadic peoples of the Great Steppe, which has developed as an idea originally wild, violent and backward. The collection opened the historical roots of this myth called LN Gumilyov "black legend" debunked exaggerated representation of the horrors of the Mongol-Tatar yoke in Russia, showed the true complex relationship of Russia and the Horde and their consequences. Objectively, the reader will understand the origins and the European Russophobia, expressed by the phrase "Russian Scratch - and you find a Tartar." Rounding out the book collection of the views expressed on the issue in "sick" issue by historians of different, including directly opposing directions.