Portraits of historians. Time and fate. The ancient world and the Middle Ages

The book includes essays on the historians of the ancient world (I.A. Orbeli, I.M. Dyakonov, B.B. Piotrovsky and others), antiquity (S. I. Kovalev, E. M. Staverman and others) and archaeologists and archaeologists (B.N. Grakov, M.E. Massoi and others) The life path and work of the founders of the scientifically set teaching of the history of the Middle Ages in Moscow and St. Petersburg universities V.I. Gerrier and I.M. Grevs are shown. The extensive essay is dedicated to the works of the Corifei of Russian Medievatistics L. P. Karsavin. Materials are interesting about the representatives of the brilliant Russian school of Byzantineists (from V.G. Vasilievsky - its founder - to A.P. Kaeman, G.L. Kurbatov) and the original researcher and decoder of Mayan Yu.V. Knorozov.
For historians, teachers of universities, students, students of lyceums, gymnasiums and a wide range of readers