For the mass Russian-speaking reader and specialists, this re-edition opens access to a book that was popular in Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. unprecedented and resounding success. The special educational value and fascination of the work of the famous English historian John Richard Green (1837-1883) has survived to this day. His story, simple in perception and deep in content, about the history of the English people and the British Empire is organically supplemented with illustrations from European sources.