Once not a people, but now the people of God... Ancient Rus as a historical and cultural phenomenon

The book considers ancient Rus" as a historical and cultural whole throughout the X-XVII centuries. When developing an approach to the object of study, the author considers the Christian concept of "conscience" as a kind of vector indicating eternity, as well as the coordinates of the speculative space in which this vector is placed. Next, a reorientation of public consciousness in ancient Rus" is traced, starting from the moment of its Christianization. The book refers to the emergence of Slavic writing, about the assimilation of Christian culture, about its chronicle, about the Orthodox revision of the XIV-XV centuries, which so strongly influenced the revival of Russia after its defeat Tatar-Mongols and the subsequent section between the Golden Horde and Lithuania, about Old Russian Saints and their distribution in time, about the social topic in ancient Russian literature, the evolution of Russian missionary and about the present-time of ancient Russia of the present tense throughout the world.
The author of the book is a wonderful Russian scientist Gelian Mikhailovich Prokhorov (1936? 2017), Doctor of Philological Sciences, former chief researcher at the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor of St. Petersburg State University and St. Petersburg State University, Honored Scientist.
For all those interested in the history of the Russian Church and Old Russian culture.
2nd edition, fixed