The Kingdom of the Slavs. Facts of Great History

Mavro Orbini - a Catholic monk, author of this book first published in 1601 in Italian - belonged to Western culture. But his book is a true hymn to the greatness of Slavic identity, solemn and pathetic, despite the fact that the author follows a thousand-year tradition of Western historiography. In this very contradiction lies the mystery of an unusual book. Many of its primary sources are truly unique. Moreover, the author - a Dalmatian humanist, a Southern Slav - stubbornly defends the unexpected idea of the origins of the ancestors of the "Slavic race" from the Hyperborean North, the European Nord...
When the first edition of the book was released in Europe, a scandal erupted, and the book was banned. A unique edition was published in a translation from 1722, carried out by an outstanding Russian diplomat of the Petrine era, Serb Sava Lukich Raguzinski-Vladislavich. The book is presented in a version adjusted to modern literary norms. The commentary article and page-by-page notes will help the reader understand the historical research of the Dalmatian monk, written in a style unusual for our time. Sensational and extraordinarily ambitious, it does not refute but rather affirms the half-forgotten medieval testimonies about the ancestors of the Slavs, finding unexpected analogies in the bold hypotheses and discoveries of modern scholars.
In this modern edition, with detailed explanations and an extensive afterword, the book is published for the first time.