From the Russian land to the land of Kyiv. The formation of statehood in the Middle Dnieper. IX -XII centuries

The early history of the Russian land is an integral part of the process of the origin of the Old Russian state. Middle Dnieper in the 9th - 10th centuries. It became the arena of a significant historical event: the transition of the Eastern Slavs from barbarism to civilization. Southern Russia of the X century. He appears a huge boiler that melted various tribes. From this peculiar social and ethnic “Kritsa”, the way of the Old Russian era was smashed. The time of Vladimir Svyatoslavich is the very line that separates the late first era of the Eastern Slavs from the early state. The subsequent period is the XI -XII centuries. - This is the heyday and the beginning of the decline of the Russian land. Under the influence of a number of reasons, by the middle of the XII century. It breaks up into the Kyiv, Chernihiv and Pereyaslav lands