The ancient cities of Russia. Historical and legal research

Reprint from the publication. SPb., 1873. With a separate map of the Chernigov province. Before this book, the fact of the existence of a mass of fortified centers among the Eastern Slavs, before Rurik ", the princely cities in Russia of the first Rurikovich was questioned. And the surviving settlements were most often interpreted by cabinet historians as abandoned sanctuaries of the ancient Slavs and their neighbors. The author managed to prove the settlement - military -administrative, economic purpose of most objects of this type. Dmitry Yakovlevich Samokvasov (1843-1911) - Russian archaeologist, historian of law, archival scholar. Professor of the history of Russian law of Warsaw (1873-1892), then Moscow (1894-1911) universities. In addition, in 1892-1911 - Manager of the Moscow Archive of the Ministry of Justice. As a historian-lawyer, Samokvasov was engaged in the study of the ethnogenesis of Slavs, the processes of the emergence and development of the state and the law of ancient Russia. Circulation 30 copies. Made using Print-on-Demand technology