From dews to Russia. History of Eastern Europe 730-1689

The book “From dews to Russia”, written by two large Slavic historians, Pierre Gonno (Paris-Rorbonne) and Alexander Lavrov (Paris-Rorbonne), covers the entire period of the Russian Middle Ages-from the resettlement of the Slavs and the formation of the Old Russian state to the beginning of the independent rule of Peter I . The authors offer the original and convincing interpretation of key events of Russian history: the formation of the power of Vladimir St. and Yaroslav the Wise, the period of fragmentation, the Mongol-Tatar yoke, the emergence of a centralized state in the lands of the North-East Russia and the emergence of the Moscow kingdom, the troubled times and the reign of the first Romanovs. In a separate section, discussion of discussion issues is made