Ryurikovichi. Istoricheskiy slovar'

Ni v chem, byt' mozhet, ne vyrazilos' stol' osyazatel'no i masshtabno istoricheskoe znachenie russkih knyazey-Ryurikovichey, kak v tom, chto i spustya mnogie stoletiya ih deyaniyami zhivo interesuyutsya ih potomki. Nachinaya s IX v. istoriya Russkogo gosudarstva i istoriya dinastii Ryurikovichey byli tesno svyazany drug s drugom. Na protyazhenii bolee semi vekov potomki osnovatelya dinastii, legendarnogo varyaga Ryurika yavlyalis' politicheskoy elitoy russkogo obschestva, zanimali vidnye mesta v voennoy, ekonomicheskoy i kul'turnoy zhizni Rusi. Slovar' soderzhit 465 original'nyh biografiy-ocherkov knyazey i knyagin' iz dinastii Ryurikovichey, postroennyh na otechestvennyh i zarubezhnyh istochnikah.