History of Khazars. Artamonov M.

The fundamental work of Mikhail Artamonov, which was published in the middle of the last century, “History of the Khazar”, who summed up many years of research by domestic and foreign Khazarovedes, and to this day remains the most complete set of information about Khazaria. The author, on the one hand, considers the history of the Khazar sequentially, from the first news of them among the Armenian and Arab authors to their last references in decades, following the death of the Khazar state, and on the other, gives a horizontal cut of the life of the Kaganate, telling, among other things, about the nomadic peoples who lived on its territory, whose fates are no less mysterious than the fate of the Khazar themselves. Separate chapters are devoted to the relationship between Khazaria with Byzantium, Russia, Arabs, Magyars and Pechenegs, Alans; the adoption by the Khazars of Judaism; The Khazar cities of Sarkel and never found, despite all the efforts of archaeologists, Itil. In the page notes to the text of the comments of Leo Gumilyov. Mikhail Artamonov (1898-1972)-historian and archaeologist, director of the State Hermitage in 1951-1964.