Alexios I Komnenos - the savior of the Roman empire

This article is an extended review of the book by A. Yu. Mitrofanov Imperator Aleksei I Komnin i ego strategiia (Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and His Strategy) . The review is significantly supplemented by the author’s historiosophical reasoning about the fate of the Constantinople Empire and the role of the Comnenian dynasty in its history.