Here are collected popular science articles by Professor A.E. Taras on various issues of Belarusian history, published between 2009 and 2016, in the almanacs “Grandfathers: a digest of publications on Belarusian history” and “Records of the Trade of Belarusian History named after Vaclav Lastousk ", as well as in other publications. In addition, five articles are published for the first time. The articles are placed in accordance with the chronology of the events described: ancient times (5 articles); ON period (6 articles); period of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (6 articles); colonial period (6 articles); times of the BSSR (16 articles). Taken together, they cover a thousand years of our history, starting from the era of the first principalities. Five more articles are polemical. There is an introduction and a conclusion.