Before you is “history” in the stories of Elena Khaetskaya. The history of the “second Rome” - Constantinople - through the eyes of a poor and desperate Greek adventurer, who is not surprised either by the “interesting times” in which he lives, or by the incredible miracles to which he testifies! ..The story of a man who happened to live in the dirty, drunken, cheerful era of the early Middle Ages - and observed from his simple everyday point of view how unlike what really happened was from what highly intelligent chronicles and exquisite novels have yet to be written about... So after all – WHAT IS THIS? “Fantasy”? "Alternative"? Something for which you can’t really find a name? It doesn’t matter. The main thing is IT’S INTERESTING. IT’S Elena Khaetskaya, and that says it all!