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For the purposes of the Russian Knowledge Page, Medieval Russia is defined as 600 to 1689 CE, the year Peter the Great came into power and introduced his Western-style reforms. In the Society for Creative Anachronism (the group the Slavic Interest Group comes from) the medieval period is defined as 600 to 1600 CE. To address this discrepancy, we will note the year of any documentation or information whenever possible so that people can decide on their own what is "medieval" for Russia.

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Internal Pages

• Nicolaa's article "The Historical Setting", an introduction to the early years of Russia
• Timelines
• Rulers of Medieval Russia----

External Pages

• • General History
    • Illustrated History of Russia and the Former USSR: A few links to pictures related to medieval Russian history and a brief intro of the early history of the Russian Orthodox Church
    • Russian History and Trivia: Predslava's "tidbits of Russian Medieval history"
    • The Rus and the Polanians: An article arguing that the "Rus' of the Arabic writers of the 9th and 10th centuries were closely associated with the Polianian tribe of the Middle Dnieper"
    • The Varangian Theory: An article by the same author above, arguing against the Varangian theory of the origins of the Rus'
    • Lomonosov's Bastards: Anatolii Fomenko, Pseudo-History and Russia's Search for a Post-Communist Identity - an interesting doctoral thesis that discusses major events in Russian history and the major schools of thought about them.
    • Lectures on Russian History from 800 to 1800: RealAudio streaming downloads of a whole semester's worth of lectures about Russian History. The course was taught by Michael Petrovich, a former professor at the University of Madison at Wisconsin. Unlike many Russian History classes, these lectures do not in any way gloss over the early years. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!