The history of the Maltese order. Zakharov V.A.

The monograph is dedicated to the history of the oldest spiritual-pineal order of the Roman Catholic Church. Throughout its centuries -old history, the Order has repeatedly been forced to change its whereabouts, the name of the order and its knights changed. In the beginning, they were called hospitals or Johnnites, from 1291 - Knights of Cyprus, from 1306 - knights of Rhodes. Only when in 1530 the Order received the Holy Empire of the German Empire of Charles V of Malta from the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, he received the name "Maltese". However, to this day, the Order continues to be called the Order of the John, the Order of the Hospitallers or the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. Much attention in the study is paid to the relationship of the Order and the Russian Empire. Documents from foreign publications and Russian archives unknown to Russian researchers are introduced into scientific circulation.

For the first time, readers are offered a historical essay on the Maltese Order of the XIX -XX centuries