This work is the primary source of knowledge about the life, customs and events of Ancient Russia, reflected by an unbiased Arab researcher Abu-Ali Ahmed Ben Omar Ibn-Dast, a contemporary of the Varyagov-Russ of the 10th century. The translator and publisher of this essay, Hvolson D.A., limited himself to clearing texts of errors and distortions with the addition of as accurate a translation as possible. The Russian text in this essay follows an Arabic passage.