The Beginning of Russia. Ancient History of the Slavs and Scythians

In the major work of Russian historian, publicist, author of the five-volume "History of Russia" and a gymnasium textbook on history, which has undergone 150 editions, editor and publisher of the newspaper "Kremlin" Dmitry Ivanovich Ilovaysky (1832-1920), the beginnings of Russian nationality and statehood are examined. In search of the answer to the question "where did the Russian Land come from?" the author delves into the history of the Scythians and Greeks, Bulgarians and Sarmatians, Khazars and Goths. The question of the calling of the Varangians is also considered, and the Norman theory of the emergence of princely power and the first state in Russia is criticized.

For a wide audience interested in domestic history.