Konstantin the Great. Sim wins. Koshelev A.V.

This novel is a large-scale historical epic about the life of Emperor Constantine (272-337), the first Christian ruler of the Roman Empire, and about its era. He was a wise ruler, a calculating politician, a victorious commander. He ascended the throne in the dark times of the sunset of the Roman Empire and presented the saving light of the new faith plunging into the darkness of the world. There were difficulties and tragedies in his way.

The emperor’s soul rushed between the craving for the true God and the burdensome debt of the ruler, who obliged to think about the earth. The emperor often doubted, but the mistakes made by him remained in the past, and his legacy still lives. After death, Emperor Konstantin was named the great, and the Christian church ranked him to the face of the saints, and their special high -class - Equal -to -the -Apostles, for his huge works on the statement of the Christian faith.