Mongols in Rus. Russian princes against khans

Jeremiah Kartin, an American historian, ethnographer and traveler who has studied Russian history and Slavic languages ​​for several years, presented a detailed description of the struggle of the Russian state with the Mongol yoke, which lasted more than two hundred forty years. The author meticulously studied archival materials, including Russian annals, various evidence of contemporaries of events, as well as scientific research and created a vivid picture of the formation of the Russian state. Bloody battles with hordes of the Mongols, endless internecine, often fratricidal wars prevented the unification of the principalities. But the far -sighted princes Vladimir Krasnoye Solnyshko, Yaroslav the Wise, Vladimir Monomakh, Yuri Dolgoruky, Vsevolod Bolshoi Nest, Andrei Bogolyubsky, Alexander Nevsky and their heirs - wise rulers, politicians, warriors and legislators, with a firm hand created a powerful state that could dump the heavy yoke and confront raids of countless enemies