The History of the Byzantine Empire. In 3 Volumes

Readers are presented with the famous trilogy by Academician Fyodor Ivanovich Uspensky, dedicated to describing the millennium-long history of the Byzantine Empire, the ideology and spirit of which, after the fall of Byzantium in the 15th century, was inherited by... Russia, copying many traits of Byzantinism in the modern post-Soviet era. It is difficult to overestimate the relevance of Uspensky's work for understanding and adequately assessing the imperial present of multi-ethnic Russia and the near and long-term prospects of its historical existence in the modern multipolar world, full of irreconcilable intergovernmental contradictions on a global scale.

The book is distinguished not only by the author's brilliant command of primary sources, which he often cites to achieve adequacy in the reader's understanding of the most complex problems of the development of the described historical events, but also by a vivid and accessible language, devoid of the usual pedantry and dryness of scientific-historical treatises.

It is addressed to young researchers and students of humanitarian universities, as well as to all readers interested in the history of the states and peoples of the Orthodox world.