The World of Uninvented Fairy-tale Creatures

or

The Beaver Sea - the Land of Monsters

Fig. from Gessner's book

Narrator:

Natalya Aleksandrovna Tatarenkova

Head of Department of Preservation of Historical and Cultural Heritage.

The Commnader Islands Nature and Biosphere Reserve named after S.V. Marakov.

Fig. from Gessner's book

Brief description:

Not so long ago, just a few hundred years ago, you would not have seen the maps of the Bering Sea. In its place stretched Beaver and Kamchatka Seas, and to the south - the Pacific Sea. And if you go back in time for another 2-3 hundred years, on the pages of zoological treatises you could meet amazing fairy-tale creatures: naked sea virgins - sirens, sea lions with a luxurious mane and even unicorns. These books were called bestiaries, from Latin  bestia  - "beast." But - they did not have a pinch of fiction! Well, except for a little...

Let's move together into this amazing world and fill the sails with a free wind of fantasies!

In addition to the story, the participants of the lecture will be invited to "become" first-time travelers or their excited listeners.
No age limit.
Free of charge. No registration.