Primary Chronicle: Information on Early Russian Society

Information on Early Russian Society
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Introduction
This paper analyzes information the Primary Chronicle excerpt about the early Russia and the background to provide discernible information about the early Russian society.
Early Russian society
The exempt provide information on the formation of ruling system in the early Russian society and how the prince struggles to change the culture from idol worshiping to religion. The Russians can be traced to the end of Noah floods when the sons of Noah, (Shem, Ham, and Japheth) set out on Odyssey and divided the earth among themselves. Shem had his share in the orient and stretched to cover the present day Middle East and India, and Hams share went to the southern region.
Japheth took the northern region. The exempt shows this region as an important area in the study of early Russian society as it forms the current day Russia and its neighboring states. This region includes Slavs (Curta, 2001), and his area spanned over the rivers Desna, Pipet, Dvina, Volkhov and the Volga, which flows all the way to Shem’s Mediterranean region. Japheth’s shares also had Rus’ Chud’, and the entire gentile world. On the shores of the seas were Varangians and bordered Chud and Prussians.
That there was a war between the Slavs, who rode down river Dnieper River under the leadership of Andrew the Sinopean teacher and the Varangians who drove them back. They then set out to govern themselves, but because there was no law, they fought trib...