Medieval Rus: from the calling of the Varangians to the adoption of Christianity. Foreword by Dmitry Goblin Puchkov

In the new book «Medieval Rus: from the calling of the Varangians to the adoption of Christianity», Klim Zhukov, a military historian-medievalist and historical reenactor, addresses one of the most interesting questions in Russian history - the origin of the Slavs. Relying on linguistic, archaeological, and written documents and sources, the author paints a panorama of the early development of the Slavs. He reconstructs their material culture, religious beliefs, and daily life, and tells about the tribes that inhabited the territory of our country even before the emergence of the Ancient Russian state. How did the Slavic tribes settle? How did the appearance of the Slavic alphabet unite the entire Slavic world and become an event of greater significance than the adoption of Christianity? Should we attach great importance to the Varangian question? How did the chronicles and other ancient sources respond to these questions, and what do modern historians think about this? We delve into Klim Zhukov's book «Medieval Rus: from the calling of the Varangians to the adoption of Christianity».