A story about the history of the country from Aleksander Nevskiy to the beginning of the reign of Pyotr I.

History helps us reconstruct past events, establish cause-and-effect relationships, and learn how states arose and how institutions of social and political governance were built. Sergey Minaev, a student of the medievalist historian Natalya Basovskaya and a graduate of the history department of the Russian State University for the Humanities, will tell in an accessible language about the formation of the Russian state.