title: FOUNDERS OF DOMESTIC BYZANTINE STUDIES. THE RETURN OF FORGOTTEN NAMES IN MODERN HISTORICAL SCIENCE
abstract: The subject of the research is the study of scientific researches of personalities, biographies and creative way of outstanding domestic scientists, scholars of Byzantium in the second half of the 19th – first half of the 20th century, who be-came the founders of Byzantine studies. Research methods. A system of theoretical and empirical research methods was used to study the specific purpose of scientific research and solving problems, namely: historical and pedagogical analysis and syn-thesis, 