About the book: 2015 / The famous researcher, historian Alexander Peresvet in his new book, in the form of a chronicle, traces the history from the appearance of the first Rus in Eastern Europe to the attack Prince Svyatoslav to Chaearia and Byzantium. The story is told on behalf of the personal confessor of Grand Duchess Olga, a Bulgarian cleric who describes how the original Rus' was born and developed. He traces its history: the construction of the city of Ladoga by the first Rus, the emergence of several Russian “proto-states”, the struggle between them - and, finally, the strengthening and exaltation of Kievan Rus among them. The reader’s gaze opens to a breathtaking panorama of a previously unknown, but historically and scientifically reliable prehistory of the Russian states. The book presents well-known and little-known historical characters, wars and campaigns, exploits and failures, political acts and religious acts of the distant past..