Alexiad

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The author of the book is a princess
Anna, daughter of Tsar Alexei I, savior of the Eastern Roman (“Byzantine”)
Empire, the founder of the Komnenos dynasty. At an early age she became a wife
the alleged heir to royal power, a mature woman tried to take away
power with her brother, failed and lived since then at the monastery, and in
in her advanced years she wrote the history of her father's reign.
Anna was brave, active and educated, she lived in the heyday of the imperial
culture. She knew and saw a lot, participated in many things, and what she reported
always valuable, and often unique. Knowing intimately the state machine of the Empire,
the life and customs of the Court, the life of the Church, she writes about the First Crusade, about wars with
Normans, Pechenegs, Turks, about rebellions, intrigues, troubles and heresies.
Having the gift of writing, Anna created living images of her father, her husband, royal
nobles, commanders of the Second Rome, herself and other noble women, violent
barbarian Latins and warriors of Islam, visible pictures of events. "Alexiad" is not
not only a historical but also a literary monument.

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Publication language: Russian

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