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The crisis of the thirteenth century was neither a consequence of the transformation of the economic order and the consequences of defeat, with dire consequences for survivors of this debacle and the crisis of “dynamic stagnation”, which became apparent long before the battle on the Kalka and led to the defeat of. Research of archaeological monuments, there are to different implementations at the regional levels of comprehension of the distant past, but not at the level of generalizations, and the predominance of a particular factor in the complex processes reflected in the archaeological sources, it is hardly possible to prove unambiguously.

Keywords: Early Rus’, 13th century, Mongol invasion, social and internal political crisis, chronicles’ accounts, archaeological data.

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
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