The Byzantine Empire. Historical-state-based essays

From personal experience, we know that people are different: cunning and greedy, kind and naive, smart and stupid, patriots and cosmopolitans, or even simply indifferent and “none”. Just the same rulers ... They are also very different from each other.
Only numerous circumstances are added over them - external and internal, momentary and long -term, which they are much more difficult to overcome than an ordinary person.
The monograph contains a gallery of Byzantine emperors and at the same time an assessment of the Byzantine society is evaluated with all its achievements and underwater trends. Byzantium is a unique empire, not only played the role of a civilizational bridge between Europe and Asia, but also fulfilled an important civilization mission for Eastern Europe, primarily Russia. We are the heirs of the Byzantine state-legal tradition, and we are proud of it!
2nd edition, supplemented and expanded