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The Review deals with Concept of Rurikid’s Polity of the 10th c., proposed by Aleksei Shchavelev, Senior Researcher at the Center for Eastern Europe in the Ancient and Medieval World, Department of the History of Byzantium and Eastern Europe, Institute of General History, Russian Academy of Sciences, parses its Chronology and spatial Structure, the Genealogy of the early Rurikids and the Dynamics of their territorial Power. The Concept of “Polity” replaces the previous irrelevant for pre-Christian Times Notions “Ancient Russia”, “Kievan Rus”, and “Ancient Russian State”. As a Basis for Reconstruction of Rurikid Polity in 10th c. served not so much “Primary Chronicle”, which Chronology Causes all increasing Criticism, as “Tactics” by the Byzantium Emperor Leo VI the Wise, a Treatise “De administrando Imperio” by the Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, letters of Adviser of Cordoba Caliphate’s Grandee Hasdai ibn Shaprut and others. This Polity emerged as a Result of stochastic Fluctuations in ethno-social, event and personal History.

The author examines temporal decoration of the female head gear, revealed in the burial sites and on the settlements of the Upper Volga region of the 13th – 15th centuries. Throughout the 13th century the cast "imitation" jewelry was used, imitating pre-Mongolian precious attire with colts and temporal rings with grain and filigree beads. The most common decorations were the temporal rings with smooth beads, preserved in the attire until the end of the 14th century, and simple temporal rings of small and medium-diameter with entering ends and bent ends. The cast lunar false-woven rings were also revealed. In the 13th century the new forms of jewelry appeared. These are the temporal rings with a shaped blade, modifications of which used during the 13th –1th centuries. Probably the temporal rings were used in a combination with a rigid headgear and earrings, which became a part of the costume in the 14th century.

The article is devoted to the history of the discovery of and research into medieval monuments of sacred architecture and their complexes from the princely Halych and Volhynian territory, carried out during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It reflects the circumstances and conditions for researching the territory, which, due to historical events, were part of different empires (namely, the Russian and Habsburg). It is noted which scientists and institutions were engaged in the study of antiquities and under whose control such study took place. The article presents the main results of archaeological and architectural studies of sacred architecture, the complex of remains of wooden and brick temples held in Volhynia and Podillia, namely in Lutsk, Volodymyr and the surrounding area, Bakota on the Dniester, as well as in Eastern Galicia and Bukovyna, namely Halych and its environs, and Vasyliv. In this context, the discovery of burials within or outside churches and in church cemeteries was noted. Emphasis was made on the discoveries of the remains of the princes in the Assumption Cathedral in Volodymyr.

The new book of Aleksei Tolochko is devoted to the problem of the formation of Rus as a kind of special socium — the corporation of slave-traders on the Dnieper waterway. The history of Rus in Eastern Europe is considered in the context of the source-study questions about the early stages of the chronicle writing and the circumstances of the creation of the first chronicle narrative — Tale of Bygone Years. The author focuses attention on the unreliability of the general scheme of history in the PVL, as well as the information of the alternative source — “Memory and Eulogy” by Jacob the Monk. The structure of Rus’ society is investigated according to the treaties with Byzantium, as well as the treatises of Constantine Porphyrogenitus. The formation of statehood established only in the era of Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavich.

В статье рассмотрены дискуссионные вопросы истории и археологии византийского города Херсона втор. пол. Х — перв. пол. XI в. Автор полемизирует с рецензией А. А. Роменского на монографию «Византийский Херсон на рубеже тысячелетий». Сделан вывод о необходимости продолжения дискуссии по следующим вопросам. 1) Трактовка сведений древнерусских письменных источников об истории Херсона. 2) Время и обстоятельства предоставления императору Константину VII документов «Херсонского досье». 3) Точная датировка разрушения Херсона в нач. XI в. 4) Возможность контактов кн. Владимира и мятежного византийского полководца Варды Склира. 5) Численность войска Владимира во время русско-византийской войны 987—988 гг. 6) Историческая трактовка событий так называемого Восстания Георгия Цулы 1016 г. / Debatable questions of the Byzantine Cherson city history and archaeology in the second half of Х — first half of ХI century studied in the article. The author argues with the A. A. Romensky review on the study “Byzantine Cherson at the turn of the Millennium”. The author comes to conclusion about the need to continue discussions on the following issues. 1) Interpretation of the Ancient Russian written sources data of about the history of Cherson. 2) The time and circumstances of giving to the Emperor Constantine VII “Cherson dossier” documents. 3) Precise Dating of Cherson destruction at the beginning of the XI century. 4) Contacts between Prince Vladimir and the rebellious Byzantine General Bardas Skleros. 5) Number Vladimir troops of during the Russo-Byzantine war 987—988. 6) Historical interpretation of the so-called Georgios Tzula rebel events in 1016.

В книге В. В. Хапаева рассматриваются основные проблемы истории византийского Херсона на рубеже Х—XI вв. Особое внимание отводится Корсунскому походу князя Владимира, а также проблеме причин, масштаба и хронологии разрушений в городе. Автор приходит к выводу, что слой разрушений вызван мощным землетрясением, которое произошло в начале XI в. Катастрофа сопровождалась повреждением стен и куртин, большей части базилик и раннесредневековых жилых усадеб. Исследователь реконструирует сейсмическую историю Крыма, приводит сводку достоверных данных о крымских землетрясениях и развенчивает ряд историографических стереотипов о них. Проанализировано экономическое и военно-политическое положение Херсона и фемы во втор. пол. Х — перв. пол. XI вв. / The book of V. V. Khapaev deals with the basic problems of the history of Byzantine Cherson at the turn of the Х—XI centuries. Special attention is given to Prince Vladimir’s Korsun campaign, as well as the problem of the causes, scope and chronology of the destruction of the city. The author concludes that the layer of destruction was caused by the powerful earthquake that had occurred in the beginning of XI century. The catastrophe was accompanied by the damage of the walls and curtains, most of the early medieval basilicas and residential estates. The researcher reconstructs the seismic history of the Crimea, considers the reliable data on the Crimean earthquakes and debunks a number of historiographical stereotypes about them. The economic and military-political situation of Cherson and theme in the second half of the Х — first half of ХI centuries is analyzed.