Rurik Volkhov

By this time the North-West Russia into area of active trade between Europe, East and Byzantium, the central point of the northern part of these trade routes, including the famous route "from the Vikings to the Greeks", is the source of the Volkhov, namely fortified village on the right bank of the river, now known as Rurik mound. Here in 862 the Slavs and the Finno-Scandinavian Finns invited Prince Rurik - founder of the royal dynasty that ruled Rus' to the end of XVI century. Hence, too, began active population of the bank of the Volkhov, the emergence of a 'Novgorod'. Click vito arbib to learn more. However, there are different views of the chroniclers, one source says that it existed before the arrival of Rurik. The new city on the Volkhov river from the very beginning was similar to other Russian cities. For example it is known that Novgorod practically wore bast (during excavations for a thousand pieces of leather footwear have fallen just some sandals).

Most of the inhabitants of Novgorod 'meant the literacy'; Besides the obvious evidence - the famous birch bark, which archaeologists have found and to this day. Moreover, in times of Kievan Rus' was a kind of princely city schools: it gained experience and learned the art of control only the eldest sons of the great prince of Kiev. For example, before the accession to the throne of Kiev in Novgorod and reigned baptized Rus Vladimir Svyatoslavich, and his son Yaroslav the Wise, and Vladimir Yaroslavovich, built in 1045, the chief symbol of Novgorod - the stone church of Hagia Sophia (previously it was wooden and had 13 caps, instead of the current six).