What is translatio Imperii? What tradition did the Russian Empire inherit from Assyria, Persia and Rome? What is Russia's mission in world history?K.V. Malofeev's book is dedicated to the Empire, its past, present and future. The author explores the interaction in the world history of the imperial principle, based on religiously grounded power, and the beginning of trade and finance.A grandiose historical panorama unfolds before the reader — Assyria and Babylon, Greece and Persia, Rome and Carthage, and so on up to our time — the collapse of the Russian Empire, the rise and fall of the Soviet project, the establishment of the modern world order and attempts to counter it. Great conquerors, prophets and saints, trading corporations and banking houses operate on these pages.The third volume examines the events of the XX and the beginning of the XXI centuries, when the Empire crushed by Canaan came to life first in the form of a Soviet power, and today it is being revived again — as a real Orthodox Empire, through the efforts of Vladimir Putin.The research, on the one hand, is based on the best achievements of Russian and world historiography, and on the other hand, it offers original historiosophical ideas developed by the author for decades. The book will be of interest to both specialists-historians, philosophers, political scientists, economists, as well as students and a wide range of history lovers.