title: Dreams about the Black Sea
abstract: The review of the book by the English researcher Neal Ascherson "Black Sea. The Birthplace of Civilization and Barbarism" (2017) analyzes the contribution made by the author to the study of the Black Sea basin and, mainly, the ethnic, political and cultural history of the tribes and peoples of the Black Sea since the deep antiquity to the present day. To successfully solve the task, N. Ascherson chose the genre of travel writing supplemented by insights into the historical past of the region. A 
journal: Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University History