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A few years ago, at Anna Yaroslavna's residence in Sanlis near Paris, I was asked to create a children's book about Queen Anna, with beautiful pictures, and to be a kind of question-and-answer about Anna Yaroslavna's life, with all the more or less well-known facts and legends.

"But how to present them when our historians refute each other almost every month? - I thought rhetorically. - Some facts have very different interpretations, such as the image in St Sophia, the year of birth, the story of the Gospel, and much more..."

After the first illustrations by the famous Kateryna Shtanko, it became clear that the dry text would not fit these sensual, demanding pictures. The story had to be brought to life at least a little... And then a young guest came to Ukraine for the summer holidays, and I decided to show her old Kyiv... And then fate brought me together with the glorious painter Kateryna Kosianenko, and the book was enriched with wonderful "chronicle" images."

So now you have two streams of narrative - chronicle and fairy tale.