Byzantium, Bulgaria, ancient Rus'. IX-beginning of the XII century. Litavrin G.

The book of the outstanding Russian Byzantinist G. G. Litavrin tells about the formation of Ancient Rus' as a powerful cultural power and the influence of Byzantium and Bulgaria on this process. As the author himself writes, “the main goal of this book is not to trace the very process and circumstances of the baptism of Rus', but to show how, despite all the vicissitudes and difficulties in relations with the Byzantine empire, the adoption of Christianity from it from it It became inevitable... The whole course of the formation and development of the Old Russian state and its very geopolitical position led to the historical pattern that made to Byzantium the “godfather” of ancient Rus'... ”