BIVSI:
Bolgarr!
VAR. HISTORICAL LIBRARY.
BULGARS and KHAZARS,
eastern Sosvdi usi PRI Vladim! R ST.
(Historical and ethnographic essay).
The chronicle in your book about the baptism of the Russian land says that misloners from Volzhek Bulgaria, from the Khazars, from the Germans and Trekovs came to Prince Vladimir1). The question of whether embassies made from these rhinestones were really sent to the Russian prince has not yet been finally decided. It is possible that representatives of these peoples are alive 10 tor tovm lamas in V! They tried to persuade the prince to accept the religion professed by each of them, which, of course, would entail significant benefits and could greatly serve their trade interests. The “history” of the Russian land is very closely connected with the history of the two eastern peoples, the Bulgarians and the Khazars, and the attempt to relegate them to the dominant religion in Rus' is completely natural. In that era when the end of the Russian state is just beginning for us, the great relations between Bulgaria, the Hazards and Russia are quite firmly established, and if a strong cultural influence spread to the Russian Slavs from time immemorial from the Greeks, then no less important is the importance for Rus' of our relations with the East, with the Bulgarians and Khazars, and through them with the ‘countries of Western and Central Asia,
We find the first mention of the Bulgarians in Armenian. writer, Moses Khorenskato. `Approximately between 149-127 volumes. BC, numerous Bulgarian columns, led by interlous0b1y to their homeland, rushed to Armenno and occupied lands there. From these settlers it became clear that the Bulgarians are a very strong tribe, living
*) Lavrentiev. lVtop. ed., 1872, pp. 82-84.
The present is very far from the Caucasus 1). Do we find an echo of some kind of internal struggle among the Bulgarians and among Byzantine writers?). In all likelihood, the movement of new nomads from Asia gave impetus to the Bulgarians, who were forced either to submit to the new conquerors or to leave their 6th homeland. The beginning of the movement of the Bulgarians in different directions dates back to the end of Uv. p R.H. At this time they lived along the shores of the Azov Sea and the rivers of Kuban, Lon and Volga). The ancestral home of the Bulgarian people is recognized as the region of the Kama River and