Pre -Petrine Rus'. Knyazkov S.A.

Sergey Aleksandrovich Knyazkov (1873 - c. 1920) - a prominent domestic historian, author of large works both in Moscow Rus' and in the Peter's era. He served as an official in the state and St. Petersburg archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1910. He was published in St. Petersburg, Moscow and Rostov-on-Don.

in the proposed book, which was published for the first time in 1917 under the name "Essays from the history of pre -Petrine Rus'", S.A. Knyazkov recreated a picture of the history of the Eastern Slavs, ancient and Moscow Rus' for a whole millennium. The study covers many questions, starting with the resettlement of the Eastern Slavs and the beginning of Christianity in Rus' and ending with home life and school training of Russian people in the 17th century