The work of Emperor Julian - a brilliant commander, a talented statesman, an excellent writer, an undoubted mystic and a theologian in love with Hellenic paganism - is one of the most significant events of the 4th century in the history of Europe. Everything was symbolic in the life of this man: he was the first of the Byzantine Emperors born in Constantinople, the nephew of Equal-to-the-Apostles Constantine and the husband of St. Helena; he died in Persia, competing with the deeds of Alexander, at the hands of a traitor.