Pages: 369-375

The article is S. V. Tomsinsky’s reply to his opponents — L. S. Klein and O. L. Gubarev — who critically reviewed his earlier publication in Stratum plus no. 5 (2014). Recognizing some fair objections of the opponents, the author, however, insists that Leningrad neo-Normanism was a real phenomenon of the Soviet historical science and archaeology of the 1970s —1990s, rather than a figment of anti-Normanists’ imagination.

Keywords: Early Rus’, Normans, archaeology, neo-Normanism, anti-Normanism.

Information about author:

Serghei Tomsinsky (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. State Hermitage Museum. Dvortsovaya Emb., 32/34, Saint Petersburg, 190000, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]