Roman Patrician Stud, a man of strict piety in his time, built a monastery in the suburbs of Constantinople. Among the monks who glorified this monastery, the most remarkable was Oeodor, nicknamed Studite, from whom various works have been left to us, not without merit. This brave and firm man in his rules was in exile for 7 years because he did not agree with the teaching of the iconoclasts. He even dared to publicly reproach EMPEROR Constantine, son of Leo TU, for divorcing him from his wife only to marry another. The Studevo Church still exists today: it is the Imror-Jami Mosque, between the Seven Tower Castle and the Samataysky °) Nameless, part 1. (Apopush. rags rita.) gates. Its entrance is decorated with four marble columns, on which there is a rather beautiful architrave. Until recently, one could see two rows of Korine colonies; but after the last fire only 4% of them remained, and then on one side of the mosque. OnB from green jasper (uere Fapifiye); their diameter is 26 inches. Fatige-Jamis (Mosque of the Conqueror), formerly the temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary, built by Mihaplos Dukas. The bodies of many EMPERORS and EMPRESSES of the Komnenov and Paleologian families rested in it. Between them, the tomb of Anna Komnena was in the expensive sarcoFagw, under the Emperor's Eagles. Here was also the coffin of the last Prince of the house of Tsaleologov. Ooma, the despot of Morea, first went to Rome, then returned under the generous patronage of Mohammed C, and died in Constantinople. But when this temple, in recent times, was turned into a mosque, then all the kings of the tomb were thrown out of it. I will mention in my mphet the small number of Greek churches remaining intact; Now I turn to Inodrom. The Hippodrome, or in Turkish Utmeydan (), was started by ImneRATOR North and ended by Constantiv. Its construction imitated the large Roman circus. Two rows of columns, placed one above the other, on a wide base, made up its circumference. Marble statues, images of stars, served as decoration for him. There were statues of EMPERORS and excellent fighters; Particularly noteworthy were the four bronze horses that were here, brought from Rome, the same ones that were later taken to Venice, and from there by Napoleon to Paris, from where they returned again to Venice and are there to this day. Here, the victor of Azrika and the Vandals, the Great Belisar, committed trumpet, and soon afterwards, if you believe some legends, at the foot of the same monuments, saved so many times by his hand, he asked for mercy. I don’t want to let Justivan disgrace his name forever with such terrible and almost shameless ingratitude! I am ready to agree with those historians who claim, °) Forged Square. that Belisar fell out of favor with the Emperor, but through the intercession of his wife Antonina and Empress Theodora, he regained the Emperor’s former favor.
Of all the monuments that once adorned the Inpodrome, now only three remain: the Granite obelibk, a dilapidated pyramid, once covered with bronze by Constantine Porphyrogenitus, and a glorious bronze column made up of three revolving snakes, on whose heads stood a golden tripod, dedicated by the Greeks to the temple of Apollo of Delchi, after they defeated Xerxes. This monument is one of the most interesting and reliable among all those left to us from antiquity.
Zosima, Eusebius, Socrates and Sozomen () especially name it among the sacred treasures taken away by Constantine from Delphi. When Mohammed entered Constantinople, he, in a rage against all Christian monuments, hit one of the snakes’ heads with an ax and knocked it off.