to create such a certain grand narrative of the history of their imperial history, it began with karamzinthe history of the russian state, where , let's say, the main tasks that he tried to fulfill had already been set that is, it is to tie the history of imperial russia to the history of ancient russia, that is, to the chronicle history, and they tried to draw a direct line of the transition of statehood from the kievan-russian times to moscow and then to petersburg, and thus show that in ancient times it was their ancient state, and the russian tsarate has been around for hundreds and hundreds of years, but in fact we know that this is not the case because, first of all, ancient russia is also an early medieval state, so this formation is specific - it is not a state in the modern sense of the word it was inhabited by various tribes, and not only slavic tribes, by the way, which were under the power of kyiv and never created a single ancient russian nation, and about which they kindly tried to tell us, especially about soviet times, at the same time she fulfilled her i still have my tas