About the book: year / Unfortunately, the ideas about the historical experience of the Byzantine Empire, even among the educated and cultural part of modern Russian society, are extremely primitive, while the meaning of this experience in the formation and development of Russian culture and statehood is difficult to exaggerate. The proposed book, containing more than 3,800 dictionary entries and appendices, brief in form, accessible in language and manner of presentation of the material, will help to partially fill this gap in historical memory. This is a popular science publication that gives the reader a general idea of ​​the history of the Eastern Roman Empire over eleven centuries: from the founding of Constantinople in 324 to its fall under the onslaught of the Ottoman Turks in 1453.