Empire. Third Rome. The second book. Malofeev K.V.

What is Translatio Imperii? What tradition was inherited by the Russian Empire from Assyria, Persia and Rome? What is the mission of Russia in world history?

Book of K.V. Malofeev is devoted to the empire, its past, present and future. The author explores the interaction in the world history of the imperial principle, based on religiously justified power, and the beginning of trade and financial.

A grandiose historical panorama - Assyria and Babylon, Greece and Persia, Rome and Carthage and so up to our time - the collapse of the Russian Empire, the rise and fall of the Soviet project, establishing a modern world order and attempts to opposition to it is unfolding before the reader. Great conquerors, prophets and saints, trade corporations and banker houses operate on these pages. The second volume considers the period from Russia's adoption of the imperial mission in the middle of the 15th century to the revolutionary shocks of 1917.

, on the one hand, is based on the best achievements of Russian and world historiography, and on the other, it offers original historiosophical ideas For decades developed by the author. The book will be interesting to both historians, philosophers, political scientists, economists, and students and a wide range of history lovers.