A few years ago, at the residence of Anna Yaroslavna in Senlis near Paris, I was asked to create a children's book about Queen Anne — with beautiful drawings, and that it was like questions and answers about the life of Anna Yaroslavna, with all the more or less 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 Sofia, the year of birth, the story of the Gospel, and much more..."After the first illustrations of the famous Ekaterina Shtanko, it became clear that the dry text would not fit these sensual, whimsical pictures at all. The story needed to be revived at least a little... And then a young guest came to Ukraine for the summer holidays, and I decided to show her old Kiev... And then fate brought me together with the glorious painter Ekaterina Kosyanenko, and the book was enriched with wonderful "Chronicle" images. So now you have two streams of narration in front of you — Chronicle and fairy-tale