About the book: 2018 / "Brief sketches of Russian history" - a book written by the famous Russian historian Dmitry Ivanovich Ilovaisky (1832–1920). The history of Russian statehood takes its beginning in Kyiv, in order to then move to the land of Vladimir-Suzdal and finally concentrate around Moscow. The cradle of the Slavic peoples, this territory contributed in the best possible way to the development of agriculture, which later manifested itself in the Little Russian and South Russian cultures.