This book became a best-seller in Russia, was reprinted several times and changed the worldview of thousends of  people. This is the first book in the history of mankind revealing the whole truth about horse and man relationships.
A new era is coming, an era of mutual understanding between horses and men.
"Now every horseman's life is divided into two parts: before and after "The Horse Crucified and Risen". Nevzorov let them see in a different light what was treated as a norm for centuries. He pointed out the only true way to establish a relationship between horse and rider: a way without violence, a path which horse and rider would follow together".
"He gave everyone a chance to decide what position to take and to join those whose grandchildren will look into horse's eyes without any shame".
Alexander Nevzorov, being a revolutionary and a brilliant thinker was one of a few people who understood the core of equestrian sport and was not afraid of calling things aloud by their names.
He was the first and the only to tell everyone what equestrian sport really consists of:
" ... equestrian sport by nature can't be even defined as a sport. Yes, any sport includes records and victories, but these records and victories are gained by one's own sweat and blood, by one's own pains and efforts. And equestrian sport (if we study the issue) represents parasitizing on physical abilities of another living being which does not want to be engaged in this sport but forced to it by pain and beating. So why the hell we call it a sport?" Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A. Nevzorov "The Horse Crucified and Risen"
The book reveals secrets of horse training and discloses the truth about the painful essence of the equestrian sport. The true history of the cavalry and the history of those cruel instruments of strict enforcement that people used for horses over almost thirty centuries, never thinking that there is a completely different way...
CONTENTS Prologue 1. "Iron" 2. Equestrianism 3. Education 4. War 5. Home Epilogue Notes Bibliography Appendices