Next volume annual the most "Ancient states of Eastern Europe" sanctified to the problem that, how, when and in what forms there is историописание in societies of Antiquity and middle Ages. The articles collected in a volume expose this range of problems on material of ancient and medieval Eurasia, and also presettlement Africa and pre-columbian America. Composition of the most ancient forms of историописания (is examined tsar's inscriptions, weather chronicles, lists of rulers, extensive нарративы and other is a sequence of their origin, historical and cultural context and other questions. The special attention is spared to societies of раннесредневековой North and East Europe, including Ancient Rus. The debatable problems of beginning of Old Russian историописания a few reasons of volume are sanctified to at once.A book will be interesting to the historians and philologists, specialists on Antiquity and To middle ages, and also источниковедению and historiography, and in addition to more wide circle of readers.