Varangians and Russia. Historical research

Unrivaled in terms of the number of attracted sources and the latitude of the material coverage, the main book-study on the Varangian-Russian issue of the wonderful Russian historian S.A. Gideonova was released in 1876 (part of its chapters was published in 1862-1863) and was awarded a very high assessment of its opponents (M.P. Pogodin, A.A. Kunik, S.M. Soloviev, V.O. Klyuchevsky) The fact that, under its influence, the then pillars of Normanism, abandoned many dogmas of Norman theory, are evidenced of the argument of the scientist.
Merogus.A. Gedeonova very accurately and capacized in 1931. Normanist V.A. Moshin: This impartial researcher buried the Ultranormanism of the Schleser type, which drove by the middle of the XIX century. domestic science to a dead end.
And today the book serves as a model of scientific objectivity, evidence -based maturity and balanced.
The study is accompanied by a fundamental article by V.V. Fomina, dedicated to the history of the Norman question and the current state of research on this topic, vast bibliography and comments.
For specialists in Russian history and its lovers