The book tells about the common origins of related Slavic peoples, about the Slavs who settled in the territory where the Russian state arose and developed, about the campaigns of the Slavs, their culture and relations with neighbors, about the first Russian princes: from Rurik to Svyatoslav. Prehistory of Russia - Russia, Did the Scythians have a state, the Northern Black Sea region in the Hellenistic era, Sarmatians, the Era of the Great Migration of Peoples, the Danube ancestral home and the resettlement of the Slavs, the Slavs and Byzantine emperors, and much more.