Medievalists.net » Sclaveni http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 A Distant World: Russian Relations with Europe Before Peter the Great http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/04/a-distant-world-russian-relations-with-europe-before-peter-the-great/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/04/a-distant-world-russian-relations-with-europe-before-peter-the-great/#comments Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:15:52 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36207 Despite their isolation and poverty, the Slavic plowmen succeeded in settling this unforgiving region, expanding their numbers, and, most importantly, creating the beginnings of a trading network along the many rivers of the region—the western Dvina, the Volkhov, the northern Dvina, and the Dniepr and its tributaries.

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