ABOUT THE TIME OF MIGRATION OF SLAVS TO THE PSKOV-NOVGOROD REGION AND THE «NORTHERN UNION» OF THE PRE-VARANGIANS ERA

Tarasov Ilia M.

In the article examines, through the prism of written, archaeological and anthropological sources, the resettlement of groups of the Slavic population to the Northwest of future Russia in the I millennium AD. The issue of the appearance of the first potestar formations among the culture bearers of the Pskov long barrows and Novgorod hills, correlated with the chronicled Krivichi and Novgorod Slavs, respectively, is also examined. The author puts forward a hypothesis about the appearance in the Ilmen-Volkhov region by the middle of the IX century a large-scale polity that teetered on the edge of a complex society and an early state, in which there was supreme power, the beginnings of law and its own writing. It is to this proto-state that the Old Rus state, created after the capture of Kiev by Prince Oleg (882), dates back.

Keywords:Novgorod Slavs, Biological anthropology, culture of Pskov long mounds, culture of Novgorod hills, Brushed Pottery culture, Ancient Slavs, Normans, Gostomysl, Novgorod