The Fall of the Byzantine Empire. The History of the Crusades. Essays on the History of the Trebizond Empire

A collection of works by the famous Russian Byzantinist F.I. Uspensky is dedicated to the final stage of the history of the Byzantine Empire. «The History of the Crusades
», written over a hundred years ago (the first edition was published in 1901), not only provides a detailed account of how the Crusades took place, but
also offers a sufficiently deep analysis of their causes and consequences for both world history and the history of the Church. The work «Essays on the History of the Trebizond
Empire» narrates an important stage in the life of the Greek East after the Fourth Crusade. As a result of this campaign in the early 13th century, alongside
with other states that emerged from the remnants of the former Byzantine Empire on the southern coast of the Black Sea, a new state was formed, which lasted for 250 years, from 1204 to 1460, thus surviving the fall of Constantinople. At the head of the newly formed empire were the descendants of the Byzantine imperial family of the Comneni, who were known in Trebizond as the Great Comneni and brought with them the ideology of Byzantine imperial power. However, perhaps the most important aspect is that the Trebizond Empire managed to fully preserve the features of the so-called «Roman civilization»: the Greek language, culture, imperial Orthodoxy, as well as the traditions of Byzantine administration.
In the appendix to the book, a work by F.I. Uspensky is published, dedicated to the analysis of the phenomenon of Byzantine education and the formation of a person in the Byzantine Empire.