This book is about how the Slavic world was born, great and incomprehensible in its diversity and its age-old disorder, contradictory and tragic in its historical destinies. The author, a famous Slavist, Doctor of Historical Sciences Sergei Viktorovich Alekseev, consistently and vividly, with exhaustive encyclopedicism, unfolds before the reader a wide panorama of the prehistory of the Slavic states, which rose from the chaos of the “Dark Ages” and the Great Migration of Peoples in the flames of wars and internecine conflicts, writing their pages in the history of not only Europe, but also Asia Minor, and even North Africa. Acute, debatable problems of the formation of early state associations of Czechs and Poles, Serbs and Bulgarians, Ancient Rus' and those Slavic peoples who disappeared from the map of Europe, assimilated by the Germans, are about than this book.