Walter Scott's famous novel "Ivanhoe" became at the beginning of the XIX century. classics of adventure literature. The success of this work aroused interest in the history of the Middle Ages. Ivanhoe is the first novel in which Scott addresses a purely English theme, describing the enmity of the Anglo-Saxons and Normans during the reign of Richard I. The text is given in translation by E. G. Beketova. The publication is decorated with beautiful illustrations of artists of the XIX-XX centuries. - Adrien Marie, Henri Scott, Frederick Theodore Leakes and Eduard Rioux.