I listen to information about the coronavirus COVID-19, but I remember Vienna in 2009 and the Monument to the victims of the most terrible epidemic for Europe - the PLAGUE, when the enraged Tokhtamysh, Khan of the Golden Horde, wishing to take revenge on the Genoese, who, during the disaster in the steppe (severe cold and horses could not punch through the frozen snow), "sold" BREAD for children to the wives of the steppe dwellers (Tokhtamysh's troops were on the march), returning and almost from the march led the troops without preparation for the attack of Kafa (Feodisia in the Crimea), the center of the slave trade in those centuries. Of course, the Genoese ... Читать дальше »