The book is devoted to the history of the Goths in the Crimea, who appeared there in the middle of the III century. and dissolved at the end of the XVIII century. as part of mainly the Russian people. Written information about them in Greek, Latin and other languages ​ ​ is interpreted in connection with the results of archaeological research in the Crimea, Ukraine, Poland and Russia. Particular attention is paid to the philological and historical study of the Greek hieromonk Matthew about the city of Theodoro (Mangup), newly published by the author of the book of the poem of 1396.