The Fascinating History of Simple Things

In the age of gadgets, robots, and artificial intelligence, it is almost impossible to imagine that there were times when people did not know how to bake bread, kindle fire, lived in caves, dressed in animal skins, and did not know what tea and coffee were.
This book is about how the whole world, along with Russia, learned the simplest things that we now use minute by minute in our daily lives. Windows and stoves, salt and sugar, spoons and forks, hats and boots – all of this has its own fascinating history.
By the way, by reading our book, you will easily see that the widespread notion of Russia's eternal technological and domestic lag behind European countries is nothing more than a myth.
Written by the German scholar P. F. Kirchmann and substantially supplemented by the great Russian historian V. O. Klyuchevsky, this book is returning to readers for the first time since 1867 in a newly edited form with the addition of many curious facts corresponding to modern scientific data.
And the rich illustrative series will allow readers to better and more accurately imagine the amazing and fascinating HISTORY OF SIMPLE THINGS.