Article // Bulletin of St. Petersburg University, special issue, 2012. - C. 108-119In the last years of me (Dvornichenko A. Yu. ) is very interested in the problem of the ancient Russian state and polytogenesis in general, primarily in the historiographical aspect .. A careful study of historiography shows that the attitude to the so-called Old Russian state (the Kiev state) and to the subsequent “feudal fragmentation” in the historical literature was far from ambiguous. The modern discourse of this “statehood” is a product of Soviet science of the 30s 50s of the XX century ..