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Nicolai Levashov. Russian History Viewed through Distorted Mirrors. Vol. 1

greater importance and in wartime – a military prince (khan). But neither possessed
absolute power nor had the right to pass the power to his children. Each of them was
elected to his post: civilians chose a civil prince and professional warriors chose their
military leader. They were elected for these positions according to their merits and
deeds; there were cases, although very rare, when one and the same prince was elect-
ed for both branches of power: more of that later, and meanwhile, let us come back to
the “historian-founders” and their “great works.”

So, according to the official version of history, Rurik created the Russian state
with Russian laws which differed considerably from the legislation of the neighbour-
ing countries, primarily from the Vikings’ law system which, in principle, can be re-
duced to one law – the law of the sword or simply, the law of force. The Vikings
lived on the territories of modern Sweden and Norway and partly Finland. Besides,
the Vikings did not have a united state with a law system which everyone was
obliged to obey. Every Jarl (a prince) was both a god and a hero for his people; the
basic activity of a Jarl and his unit was robbery, mainly on the sea, along shipping
lanes.

In other words, they were sea-rovers. It is true that sometimes they were hired,
for considerable sums of money, as mercenaries, and serving in the Guards of one or
another ruler they could observe the political system of countries and empires from
the position of a guard, body-guard or warrior. While in Kievan Russia, then, there
was a state, in the complete sense of this word: with its traditions and concepts which
had been crystallized for centuries, and sometimes for millennia. It turns out that the
“fathers” of the history of Russia made an obvious “mix-up”.

Thus, an appropriate question arises: how did a strong and sophisticated state
appear in Kievan Russia? And maybe this state system did not appear “from any-
where”, but “simply” existed in this form long ago?! Thus, an enigmatic and mystic
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halo around Kievan Russia of the 9 to 10 centuries disappears, and..., one huge
BUT, which makes such a turn of events obviously undesirable for those in power,
appears.

The essence of this BUT is in the fact that in this case the Russian state system
must have existed for hundreds, if not thousands of years, which obviously did not
conform to the picture of wild Slavs who just came out of their lairs. And this fact is
so disliked by the “father-founders” that they preferred what is frankly nonsense, to
the disadvantageous, for them, truth. Moreover, it would be more correct to call
Kievan Russia, “Kievan Khaganate”, it being the Kievan province of the enormous
Slavonic-Aryan Empire, of which most European territories were its provinces. It
was precisely this fact which the “creators” of Russian history wanted so desperately
to hide. Oddly enough, almost no one noticed these and many other ridiculous things,
as well as the enormous blanks in the officially acknowledged version of the History
of the State of Russia.

In this book I will try to re-establish historical justice and shed light on the real

states, including Novgorod, Vladimir-Suzdal, Muscovy, Tver, Halych-Volynia, and in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

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