About the book: 2009 / The history of Eurasia begins with the Mongols. They created the most extensive empire in world history, stretching from Korea to Western Rus' in the north and from Burma to Iraq in the south. The Mongols dominated most of Eurasia and kept the rest at bay. And the greatest fame belongs to two: Genghis Khan and his worthy grandson - Kublai. He gained fame during a long and bloody internecine war with his own brother and increased the conquests of his predecessors. Kublai became the first Mongol khan to move away from the image of a steppe nomad conqueror and take on the responsibilities of the ruler of a sedentary society. His thirty-four-year reign was marked by the construction of a capital, the development of a code of laws and a new script for all languages ​​spoken throughout the Mongol Empire, and the patronage of actors, artists, scientists and doctors, but still by continuous war along the entire perimeter of the empire's borders. We present to the domestic reader not just the best and most impartial scientific biography of Kublai Kublai, one of the greatest rulers in world history, but a fascinating story about an interesting and amazing era.