Scythia - Russia. Knot events and through problems. Volume 2

Dmitry Alekseevich Machinsky (1937-2012) is a visible domestic historian and archaeologist, a long -term employee of the Hermitage, a penetrating interpreter of Russian history and literature. All his multifaceted activity of the scientist was subordinated to the main task - the study of the historical context of the isolation of the Slavic community, the features of the formation of the Ethnosocium "Rus"" and the processes that led to the formation of the first Russian state. The field of his research was all the most striking phenomena of the background of Russia, from the Maykop culture and monuments of the Khakass-Minusinsky basin (PV-IH millennium BC), including the Scythian era, the Early Necolonization period of the development of the Northern Black Sea region and the Greek-Speys, before The barbaric world of Europe of the first centuries of the new era. D. A. Machinsky perceived these processes as the germination of the future "Tree of Russia". D. A. Machinsky was going to unite his most important articles into the book. In this publication of works, an attempt is made to realize this intention of the author