About the book: 2008 / What do we know about Scotland? Perhaps a little. Some of the novels of Walter Scott and a vivid cinematic image of the Scottish “Highlander” - Duncan MacLeod... This book will present you with an ancient country in the north of Britain in exhaustive historical detail: as the keeper of the now almost forgotten traditions of the pre-Celtic (!) culture of the semi-legendary Celtida, as an irreconcilable rival of England with its own, native Scottish foundations of government. The dramatic vicissitudes of the rise and fall of the royal dynasties of a mountainous region seemingly far from Russia are interesting not only in themselves: after all, Russia and Scotland are connected by some kind of invisible, secret ties, it is not for nothing that many Scots became truly Russian - just remember the Lermontov family, which dates back to the Scottish the bard Thomas Learmonth, who, according to legend, at the end of his life went to the land of the Fairy Queen…