Древняя Русь

Otkryvai͡a knigoĭ 'Drevni͡ai͡a Rusʹ' svoĭ znamenityĭ istoricheskiĭ t͡sikl, Georgiĭ Vernadskiĭ stavil pered soboĭ zadachu rasskazatʹ o prot͡sessakh, proiskhodivshikh na territorii budushcheĭ Rusi v techenie neskolʹkikh soten let, kotorye predshestvovali vozniknovenii͡u v IX veke Drevnerusskogo gosudarstva. Po krupit͡sam, privlekai͡a vizantiĭskie, latinskie, slavi͡anskie, arabskie, persidskie, armi͡anskie, anglosaksonskie i prochie istochniki, on sozdal obʺemnui͡u kartinu, v kotoroĭ nari͡adu so slavi͡anami nashlosʹ mesto sarmatam i gotam, gunnam i alanam, avaram, khazaram, bulgaram, skandinavam. A takzhe sushchestvovavshim v to vremi͡a imperii͡am - Vizantii, Frankskomu gosudarstvu, Ti͡urkskomu kaganatu i Arabskomu khalifatu. Dogosudarstvennyĭ period Rusi, po Vernadskomu, - ėto organicheskai͡a chastʹ russkoĭ istorii, kotorai͡a nachinaetsi͡a ne s vari͡agov, a s antov i rannikh plemen rusʹ, imei͡ushchikh irano-slavi͡anskoe proiskhozhdenie. Georgiĭ Vernadskiĭ (1888-1973) - russko-amerikanskiĭ istorik, professor Ĭelʹskogo universiteta, syn Vladimira Vernadskogo i uchenik Vasilii͡a Kli͡uchevskogo.

Opening his famous historical cycle with the book "Ancient Russia", George Vernadsky set himself the task of telling about the processes that took place on the territory of the future Russia for several hundred years, which preceded the emergence of the Ancient Russian state in the IX century. Bit by bit, drawing on Byzantine, Latin, Slavic, Arabic, Persian, Armenian, Anglo-Saxon and other sources, he created a three-dimensional picture in which, along with the Slavs, there was a place for Sarmatians and Goths, Huns and Alans, Avars, Khazars, Bulgars, Scandinavians. As well as the empires that existed at that time - Byzantium, the Frankish state, the Turkic Khaganate 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 the early tribes of Russia, having Iranian-Slavic origin. Georgy Vernadsky (1888-1973) was a Russian-American historian, professor at Yale University, the son of Vladimir Vernadsky and a student of Vasily Klyuchevsky.