August 1972. The archaeologist temporarily became a lumberjack: a wide gap in an impassable gap is the work of his hands. Excavation begins. And now the first finds have been extracted: a stone core, iron arrowheads. Under the rubble of the wall - human bones. A battle broke out here. Mangup, the capital of the feudorites, set on fire by the Turks, was burning, Turkish guns rumbled (a novelty of those days). It was in the fall of 1475. In the coming years, the archaeological study of Mangup will be continued and expanded, however, a new book about it will appear, perhaps, not soon. Meanwhile, in this reader will find a story about the results of many years of work on the history of Theodoro - the city and the state.