The monograph examines the problems of political history, social development of Vladimir-Suzdal Rus, as well as its trade and cultural contacts with the countries of the West and the East. The internal and foreign policies of Yuri Dolgoruky and Andrei Bogolyubsky, the genesis and evolution of the veche in the northeast, its social composition, the functions of princes, the relationship between the cities of Vladimir, Rostov and Suzdal, the origin and development of such a layer of the feudal class are studied in detail. as nobility. The book is designed for historians and readers interested in the initial stage of Russian history.