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EDITORIAL
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AD MEMORIAM
B. A. Raev (Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation)The innocent victim Free!19O. V. Sharov (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)Remembering the first Teacher Free!23S. S. Ryabtseva (Kishinev, Moldova)To Sir, with Thanks Free!27V. A. Bulkin’s Album of Photos.Album of Photos Free!29V. A. Bulkin (†)Doublet Hydronyms of the Upper Dnieper and Dvina Regions Free!41V. A. Bulkin (†), V. N. Sedykh (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)“Mjölnir” over Gnezdovo (sacré is a sign of grace or misfortune?) Free!47
TOWNS AND RIVERS
A. A. Alexandrov (Pskov, Russian Federation)The Rudon, the Turunt and the Hesin Rivers in the Antique Tradition53T. N. Jackson (Moscow, Russian Federation)Hedeby — Schleswig in “Knýtlinga Saga”65
PRE-STATE EAST-EUROPEAN SOCIETIES
M. M. Kazanski (Paris, France)Warrior Burials of the Bosporan Aristocracy of the Post-Hunnic Period (second half of the 5 th — first half of the 6 th century)75P. V. Shuvalov (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)“They Make Many Exits in Their Houses”. Habitations of the Slavs according to Pseudo-Maurice87V. I. Kulakov (Moscow, Russian Federation)Belt Sets with an Openwork Decor in the Western Baltic Aristocratic Antiquities of the 7 th Century93E. R. Mikhaylova (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)The Pskov Long Barrows Culture as a Cult Union? Setting of a problem105O. V. Komar (Kiev, Ukraine)Social, Chronological Group or Cultural Type: paradoxes in interpretations of the early nomadic sites in Eastern Europe (6th — early 8th centuries AD)117
POWER STRUCTURES IN THE OLD RUS
V. Ya. Petrukhin (Moscow, Russian Federation)A contribution to Polemics on Treaty Relations and the Beginning of the Russian State131A. A. Romanchuk (Kishinev, Moldova)“Rings and Weapons” Oath of the Old Russians: slavic and germanic context143O. L. Gubarev (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)Power Structures in Rus in the 9th Century and “Frisian Danes”155I. V. Stasyuk (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)From the Centers of Settlement to the Centers of Power: genesis of the churchyards in the west of the Novgorod land169A. E. Musin (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)Corpus Fratrum or “Union of Archontes”? Historical and archaeological comments on the models of power in Eastern Europe at the turn of the 11th century183Yu. V. Seleznev (Voronezh, Russian Federation)Horde Khan on the Territory of Volhynia and Halych Principalities: progress of the suzerain through his vassals’ lands207
PEOPLE OF THE OLD RUS
A. I. Filyushkin (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)Tombs and Belongings of the First Russian Princes: from myths to facts and from facts to myths217P. E. Sorokin (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)The Boats from Graves on the Territory of Old Russia235N. V. Zhilina (Moscow, Russian Federation)Social Composition of the Owners of the Hoards from Old Rus (9th—13th centuries)251I. E. Zaytseva (Moscow, Russian Federation)Viking Age Russian Belts with Plaques: a social status or a tradition?267A. A. Peskova (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation), S. S. Ryabtseva (Kishinev, Moldova)Medallions with Crystal Inserts in the Composition of Socially-Prestigious Full Dress of the Population of the Southwestern Regions of Old Rus281
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
A. V. Kurbatov (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)Collections of Leather Objects from Hedeby and Ladoga: comparative discussion of everyday life in Early Medieval Settlements301S. V. Beletsky (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)Old-Russian Seals in a Publication by V. A. Anokhin311N. N. Seregin (Barnaul, Russian Federation)Turkic Society on the Periphery of Khaganate (social interpretation of funeral sites of the second half of I Millennium AD in Altai-Sayan region)333A. A. Kharlamova (Kharkiv, Ukraine)Cumans’ Costume in 11th—13th cCenturies in the Territory of the Eastern European Steppes345
PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
V. F. Kashibadze (Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation), O. G. Kashibadze (Nizhny Arkhyz, Russian Federation)Phene Geography of Dental Markers in Medieval Populations from Eastern Europe369S. V. Vasilyev, S. B. Borutskaya, N. I. Khaldeeva, T. D. Panova (Moscow, Russian
Federation)Anthropological Study of the Remains of the Grand Duchess of Moscow, Sophia Palaeologus375
REVIEWS
L. S. Klejn (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)Danubian Original Homeland of Slavs: New Turn in the Substantiation Free!397
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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