Scythia - Russia. Knot events and through problems

Dmitry Alekseevich Machinsky (1937-2012) is a prominent domestic historian and archaeologist, a long-term employee of the Hermitage, an entertaining 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 isolation of the Slavic community, the features of the formation of the ethnosocium “Russia” 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 (IV-III millennium BC), including the Scythian era, the Early Necolonization period of the development of the Northern Black Sea region and the Greek-Spey Contacts, before The barbaric world of Europe of the first centuries of the new era. These processes D.A. Machinsky perceived as the germination of the future Tree of Russia. Their most important articles D.A. Machinsky was going to unite in the book. In this publication of works, an attempt is made to realize this intention of the author