With this guide in hand you will be able to see sights that are not mentioned in the usual guides to Istanbul: you will find a 4th century church in a car workshop, a corridor of an ancient monastery in the current courtyard and palace dungeons in a carpet shop. This book takes you to the romantic Byzantine ruins on the uninhabited islands of Printseva archipelago and to the beautifully preserved temples on the Sea of Marmara, where there are no crowds of tourists. But even in St. Sophia you will be shown something that most onlookers do not see. In this book, each monument is seen through the eyes of the Byzantines themselves, who lived here, prayed, scandalized, killed and loved each other. Constantinople is not only bureaucracy, stiffness and piety. These are carnivals, markets, sorcerers, adulterers, friendly drinking parties, thieves' gangs, human baseness, human nobility and, in general, life. You will not only find yourself in the place of the Byzantine school, but also learn what was taught here and how it was written off; you will not only be brought to the hospital of Constantinople, but also paint in detail how and from what they treated here. The amusement of the story is combined in this book with the presentation of the latest scientific hypotheses.