About the book: 2002 / The book is an attempt to understand the most confusing issues of Russian history of the 9th–10th centuries, because in essence Kievan Rus is different civilization; The thinking of a person in the Middle Ages was different from today. The temporary remoteness of the events of Russian antiquity, the small range of primary sources, and their erroneous interpretations by previous researchers have raised a lot of questions for modern scientists. How many Olegs were among the first Russian princes? Who killed the Kyiv prince Igor? Why didn’t Svyatoslav “sit” in Kyiv? Historian A. S. Korolev comes to stunning conclusions: the real princes of the 9th–10th centuries turn out to be completely different from their chronicle portraits…