This book reveals the events of the reign of the great Macedonian dynasty of Byzantine emperors. Having accepted the kingdom in a moment of deep political, economic and military crisis, the emperors Basil I the Macedonian, Leo VI the Wise, St. Nicephorus I Phocas, John I Tzimiskes and others soon won for Byzantium almost all previously lost territories in the East, returning the empire's splendor, power and strength. It was under them that the Arab expansion practically ended, having exhausted its potential; The slow decline of the Caliphate began. In addition to military and political events, the book outlines the peculiarities of the relationship between the Patriarchs of Constantinople and the Roman Church, which was experiencing a severe crisis of the papacy, which the ideologists of the Cluny Reform hoped to overcome. At the same time, the Eastern Church was tested by “Greek papism”, which was expressed in sharp competition with the imperial power and gradual administrative subordination to Constantinople...