The library of the project "History of the Russian State" is recommended by Boris Akunin the best monuments of historical literature, which reflect the biography of our country, from its very origins. The book, which you hold in your hands, allows you to hear the live voices of the “Domongolian” era not far from the bustle of chroniclers, but poets, thinkers, preachers and legislators. Excited speech of the educated and moral politician Metropolitan Hilarion in the “Word on Law and Grace” . Classical medieval conversation of a man of many experience with his descendants - in the "Izbornik 1076" and "Teachings" of Vladimir Monomakh compiled by Deacon John . The man of the XXI century will appreciate the lyricism of “Tales of Boris and Gleb”, the aphorism and “shameful talk” of “The Words of Daniel Zatochnik” a masterpiece of the epistolary genre a beautiful concise language of “Russian Truth” the most valuable evidence of Russian legal thought .. The psychologism of The Tale of the Murder of Andrei Bogolyubsky forces us to rethink the genre of life, and the plot of The Order of Eymund is to compare the interpretations of the same events by monastic scribes and compilers of Western secular sagas. And especially familiar is the voice of the most mysterious and famous anonymous of Ancient Russia the author of “Words about Igor’s regiment”. The pdf A4 format preserves the publishing design.