The initial Rus'. Ivanov V.D.

Roman Valentina Ivanova “Primordial Rus'” belongs to the conditional historical trilogy, dedicated to the time of the formation of the Russian state - “the longitudinal era, which no one has yet written about.” Since the first publication in 1961, this monumental epic deserves the love of readers, withstood many reprints, and in 1985 the plot of the novel formed the basis of the film of the same name. VI century AD. The tribes of the Eastern Slavs are fragmented, but they speak the same language and live similar traditions. Forced to defend against the robber raids of foreigners-nomads, they begin to think about the unification in the face of a common enemy...

a detailed image of Slavic life and traditions in combination with an exciting plot and expressive portraits of the characters won the books of Valentin Ivanov among the best Samples of the genre of the historical novel.