At the end of the 9th century, a nomadic people, hitherto unknown in those parts, arrived in the Eastern European steppes from across the Volga. The nomads reached the Crimea, pushed the Hungarians beyond the Danube and spread like masters over the vast territory between Russia in the north and Byzantium in the south. For about two centuries they struck fear into the Danube peoples, ravaged Russian cities and made the Byzantines tremble. But on April 29, 1091, all these people, as the Byzantine princess Anna Komnena wrote, “exceeding any number, with their wives and children died on the same day.” Information about these nomads is preserved in Byzantine, Arab and Western European sources, where they bear different names; the Russians called them Pechenegs. This book tells about the history of the Pechenegs, their appearance on the world stage and terrible death. It includes the work of academician V. G. Vasilievsky “Byzantium and the Pechenegs” and chapters from the book by P. V. Golubovsky “Pechenegs, Torques and Cumans before the Tatar invasion.”