In the Labyrinths of History

This book is about how knowledge is gained and how "real" journeys, which consist not in the desire to see new landscapes, but in gaining the ability to see differently, can help in this. Fate has allowed the author - journalist and publicist N.A. Toots and the honored artist of Russia V.V. Nadezhin, whose paintings are in many museums around the world (and even in the collection of the King of Spain), to visit France and Spain, India and Bangladesh, America and England, Syria and Tanzania, Egypt and Zanzibar. And everywhere N.A. Toots, immersing herself in the subject, sought out, while V.V. Nadezhin wrote sketches that became part of his series of paintings "Living Echoes of the Planet". Exhibitions of these paintings have already taken place in many cities of our country. The essays about the journeys and the paintings form the basis of this book.
The time described in it covers a vast period of history: from the reign of the Israeli-Judean King Solomon to our days, from the gospels and the romance of the Holy Grail to the works of the Rerikhs and Blavatsky, from the Templars of the Middle Ages to today's templars - knights of the Temple of Humanity. And the book convinces that in the labyrinths of the long-ago past often lies what can provide answers to questions about the future.
The book is written vividly and engagingly; those who read it will gain a lot of interesting information, visit the hidden corners of the Earth and sacred places, and perhaps perceive the events of our lives in a new way.
The book is addressed not only to those interested in sacred history but also to anyone concerned with the search for the meaning of life.