About the book: 2022 / The book presents surviving information about the Normans or half-Normans in Eastern Europe in the 11th century. and ideologically continues similar work, which collects materials covering the 9th-10th centuries. The reader will meet here many historical figures whom he has never heard of before, and will also be surprised to learn about the Norman origin of a number of characters well known from chronicles and other sources. Figuratively speaking, the political and cultural contacts of Scandinavia with Gardarika in those days resembled a two-way street movement. There are numerous cases where the Normans became princes in Eastern Europe, and immigrants from Eastern Europe reached the rank of kings in Scandinavia, occupying a worthy place in its history.