Russkaya Pravda. The Legal Code of Kievan Rus'

The deepest historical, cultural and spiritual roots of Russian national identity can be found in an ancient kingdom known as Kievan Rus’, a state that flourished from the end of the 9th to the middle of the 13th century over a vast geographical area including a large part of today’s western Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, from the Baltic and White Seas in the north to the Black Sea coasts in the south.
According to the Russian Primary Chronicle, the first ruler to start uniting East Slavic lan...