The collection presents the work of the world famous British writer, poet and historian, the founder of the genre of the historical novel Walter Scott. A rich life and various hobbies led the author to create numerous novels about the past of Scotland during the Civil War, the history of England in the 16th century. This was a real discovery of a new world and material for historians. Against the background of the "classical" picture of the Middle Ages created by him, a gallery of his heroes - representatives of a wide variety of social strata of society - takes place.