About the book: 2003 / This is the first study in Russian historiography with such a wide chronological and thematic coverage, based on a comprehensive analysis of written and archaeological sources. The reader is consistently exposed to the pages of the ancient history of the Avars, Bulgarians, Hungarians, Khazars, Pechenegs, Polovtsians, Mongol-Tatars - nomadic peoples who opposed the Eastern Slavs and Kievan Rus. For a wide range of readers.