In the footsteps of Count Dracula..

A mysterious land covered with sinister legends about Count Dracula, the ancestral home of vampires and other wickedness - such is the image today Romania, stubbornly imposed from television screens and book pages. Same one. “Brand” is used by representatives of the tourism industry to attract hunters before the thrill of tourists.

 

 

But Count Dracula's story is gone. deep in the depths of medieval history and is associated with the name of the Wallachian ruler of the XV century. Vlada Tsepesha. Cruelty and courage on the verge of madness distinguish him from other political parties. medieval figures.

 

 

Dracula's story gets a chance survive his hero, when she was captured on paper and travelers began to deliver These scrolls are from different countries. In Muscovy, “The Tale of Count Dracula” appeared XV century. on light hand diplomat F.S. Kuritsyn, who in 1482. was sent to the court of the Hungarian King. But the true popularity of the mystical Count and mysterious Transylvania came in the XIX century, after the publication of the novel by Brem Stoker “Dracula”. This Irish author, who had never been to Transylvania, sculpted his masterpiece using Reports of British officials who visited these places on duty. In other words, the land of darkness led by the mystical Dracula appeared thanks to the impressionability of English officials. For whom a trip to these barbaric lands was akin to a journey through the “circles of hell” Dante.

 

 

The True Succession of the Wallachian ruler Vlad the Tepes and Count Dracula began with the publication of the book by R. Florescu and R. Macinelli In Search of Dracula in 1972. The entertainment industry quickly replicated the “bloodthirsty” The image of the ruler of Transylvania, who to this day serves as the main promo character for the film and tourism business. Anyway, Dracula-- an important trademark of Romania, to which, however, historical The realities of medieval Transylvania.

 

Olga Yakubovskaya