Drevniaia Rus' - Vernadskii Georgii Vladimirovich

Opening the book "Ancient Russia" his famous historical cycle, George Vernadsky set himself the task to tell about the processes that took place in the territory of future Russia for several hundred years, which preceded the emergence of the 9th century The ancient Russian state. Bit by bit, attracting Byzantine, Latin, Slavic, Arab, Persian, Armenian, Anglo-Saxon and other sources, he created a three-dimensional picture, in which, along with the Slavs, there was a place for sarmats and goths, Huns and Alans, Avars, Hazaras, Bulgars, Scandinavians. As well as the empires that existed at that time - Byzantium, Frankish state, Turkic Kaganate and the Arab caliphate. The pre-state period of Russia, according to Vernadsky, is an organic part of Russian history, which begins not with the Varangians, but with the ants and early russ tribes of Iranian-Slavic origin. Georgy Vernadsky (1888-1973) - Russian-American historian, professor of Yale University, son of Vladimir Vernadsky and student of Vasily Klyuchevsky.