The history of ancient Russia. The oldest homeland of the Slavs - Central Europe, where take the sources of the Danube, Elbe and Vistula. From here the Slavs moved further east, to the banks of the Dnieper, Pripyat, Desna. These were the tribes of the glades, the Drevlians, the northerners. Another stream of immigrants moved in the northwest to the shores of the Volkhov and Lake Ilmen.

The history of ancient Russia:
- Introduction
- Formation of the Old Russian state. Theories of the origin of the Old Russian state.
- Prerequisites for the formation of the state of the Eastern Slavs.
- Norman theory.
- The social and political system of Kievan Rus of the 9th-11th centuries.
- The main stages of the formation of the ancient Russian state.
- Russia in a period of political fragmentation.
- Causes of political fragmentation
- Features of the socio - economic and political development of the Russian principalities.
- The main trends in the development of Russian civilization in a period of political fragmentation.
- The struggle of Russia with foreign invaders in the XIII-XIV centuries.
- Mongolo-Tatar invasion and the establishment of the Golden Horde yoke.
- The struggle of Russia with the Germans and the Swedes.
- Foundation of the Russian state
- First Princes - Rurikovich
- Vladimir Red Sunshine. Baptism of Russia
- Yaroslav the Wise. The heyday of Kievan Rus
- Yaroslavichi. Strife and Crucify
- Vladimir Monomakh and the beginning of the fragmentation of Russia
- Vladimir-Suzdal Russia
- Galitsko-Volynsk and Chernigov princedoms
- Veliky Novgorod and Pskov
- The invasion of the Mongol-Tatars in Russia
- Alexander Nevskiy
- Moscow Russia. The middle of the XIII - the middle of the XVI centuries.
- Dmitry Donskoy and the Battle of Kulikovo Field.
- Vasily I Dmitrievich
- Basil II the Dark. Civil War
- Ivan III Vasilyevich - Collector of the Russian land
- Vasily III and the regency of Elena Glinskaya
- The reign of Ivan the Terrible
- Tsar Fedor Ivanovich and Boris Godunov