The study is devoted to the initial stages of the history of the Orthodox church organization in Russia in its relations with the princely government: the history of the creation of the metropolis in Kyiv and the system of bishops, the means of material support for the church, its judicial activities. The book studied the history of the emergence of cathedrals in Russia, princely monasteries. The Appendix provides biographical materials about Russian metropolitans and bishops. For historians and everyone interested in the past of our Motherland.