Отзыв от Арне Коэтса по возвращении домой:
I just got back from Moscow at the Times and Epochs festival where we jousted solid lances with steel coronels, amongst other disciplines. It was an adventure i will never forget. I made many new firm friends and was impressed and insprired by the bravery and passion of these people and how hard they worked to achieve this. The hospitality was amasing, the groundcrew fantastic, the judging of the marshals very good, fair and prudent and the inclusion of a ladies court was very good and extremely well executed by some very fair ladies indeed.
The organisation did marvellous work to battle through a forest of red tape to get us there and arrange many other things. The festival was generally very impressive in terms of authenticity and size, in a beatifull location.
Also what stands out was the crowd. I have never seen a crowd like it. They were loud, passionate and many, but also turned out to have read much about the event beforehand and had even prepared sentences in dutch and german to greet me after the joust, embroidered scarfs and hand drawings as gifts... it was amasing.
In particular i need to thank Dmitry Savchenko and Daria Isaeva for their planning of the event. The vision of Dmitry was carried through with real passion and a very limited budget. What they achieved was amasing and due to much blood, sweat and tears from their side.
