Откуда пошла Русская земля

Whence Came the Russian Land

C1 · Advanced · non-fiction · 10 scenes · Premium story

An advanced history reader on the Rus people of medieval Eastern Europe. Rivers used as roads, hoards of Arab silver, the Normanist question at its modern settlement, a winter tribute circuit described by a Byzantine emperor, a baptism that was a condition of a bargain, birch-bark letters from Novgorod — and a closing caution about reading modern nations back into the tenth century.

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Characters

The Chronicler (Летописец) — Author of the Tale of Bygone Years
Oleg (Князь Олег) — Took Kiev, c. 882
Vladimir (Князь Владимир) — Baptised 988
Onfim (Онфим) — A boy in Novgorod

Vocabulary from this story

летопись — chronicle
летописец — chronicler
источник — source
археология — archaeology
слой — layer
погребение — burial
клад — hoard
монета — coin
грамота — document
береста — birch bark
договор — treaty
предание — tradition