PHJ № 1 (33) 2022 — E. K. Piotrovskaya. REVIEW OF THE BOOK: “THE CHURCH OF HAGIA SOPHIA IN CONSTANTINOPLE IN THE LIGHT OF THE BYZANTINE SOURCES”
The book presents the corpus of Byzantine texts on the Church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople translated into Russian and accompanied by commentary. There are translations of all the main Byzantine sources on Hagia Sophia from the 6th to the 12th c.: Procopius, Agathias, John Malala, Theophanes the Confessor, Paul the Silentiary, Michael of Thessaloniki. The translations are preceded chapters surveying the history and architecture of the Great Church. The book is interested not only for scholars, but all of them who wants to know more about Byzantine.