Kievan Rus. Vernadsky G.

This book about how it was formed, stronger, the first Russian state developed and died. The Rurikovichs that arose in the 9th century, which took Christian culture through Byzantium, gaining military force, during the heyday, it occupied an extensive territory between the Black and Baltic Seas. But the ambitions of the specific princes crushed him to pieces, and then the Mongol invasion led him down under his history. Only after centuries, the Russians again were able to unite into a single whole, but already around another center - not Kyiv, but Moscow. In his fundamental work - in fact, the encyclopedia of the Kyiv period of Russian statehood - George Vernadsky sequentially describes the stages of the formation of Kievan Rus, speaks of the sources of the formation of Russian civilization, talks in detail about the life, culture, economics, religion, social organization of ancient Russian society.

Georgy Vernadsky (1888-1973)-an outstanding Russian-American historian, professor of Yale University, student of Vasily Klyuchevsky and son of the great thinker Vladimir Vernadsky.