Antiquities of White Russia

White Russia ... What is it not in modern political, but in a cultural and historical context? It so happened that most of those interested in the history of Big Russia are not known as much as it costs. The events taking place on these lands in the X -XIII centuries are inextricably intertwined with the history of other Russian lands, both more northern and more southern and eastern. All these territories, on the one hand, exist in a single space, on the other, they differ in originality, they have a unique local flavor. In the 19th century, many scientists and ethnographers paid attention to these features, whose work today retain their value and is of considerable interest. To get acquainted with the outline of the early history of the Dregovichi and Radimichs, as well as the customs and beliefs of the descendants of these Eastern Slavic tribes, preserving traces of deep archaic, allow fascinating works written by M.V. Dovnar-Zapolsky and A.Ya. Bogdanovich