History of Russia from the earliest times. Volume 1

The story is called the Holy Book of Peoples, which keeps the live memory of the centuries. These are the covenants of ancestors, the key to understanding the present and prophecy of the future.
The collection "Great historians" is the works of the classics of domestic historiography. In them, events and people of Russia appear in a retrospect of centuries. This is a scrupulous, consistent, wise statement of the life of the country more than a thousand years of its existence.
The history of Russia is the history of its statehood - not rulers, as Karamzin believed, but the life of the people in general. With Rurik to this day, we are dealing with a single organism, which obliges us to do not crush the Russian history on the part, but follow the connection of phenomena. This point of view of the outstanding Russian scientist Sergey Solovyov has had a huge impact on the development of domestic historical science.
In the first issue, it is described about the emergence of ancient Russia, its first princes, about the adoption of Christianity and the establishment of Russian society