Craft of Ancient Russia

The book includes one of the most important writings of an outstanding Russian historian, an archaeologist and a connoisseur of the culture of ancient Russia academician B. A. Rybakov "Crafts of Ancient Russia". This essay is a doctoral dissertation of Rybakov (Protection took place in 1942) and actually marks the birth of an outstanding scientist. It published in 1948 and was awarded the Stalinist Prize. Since then, this compendium of scientific knowledge about the craft of ancient Russia, about the techniques and technologies of crafts obtained on the basis of a thorough study of these archeology and written sources, has won universal recognition in a scientific environment, laid the foundations for the emergence of many historical studies of individual crafts. Reasoning its essay the idea of ​​the craft as the first of the forms of industry and carefully examining the place and role of crafts in urban life and agriculture, the author shows the state of the ancient Russian economy and its development.
Fullness, clarity and sequence of presentation of the material make a book available and useful for a wide range of readers, but especially for students-historians and scientists of humanitarian specialties