Did a Muscovite state exist? (the "History of Russia" series, 28.03.2026)

An author’s monologue (in Ukrainian, with direct quotations in the original Russian) — an analysis of the newest multi-volume academic edition “History of Russia” (published from 2024). The author reads out the introduction to the 4th volume (“Russia in the 10th century”, p. 28), in which the Russian publishers themselves admit that the 10th-century state is called, in the scholarly literature and in the sources, “Russian”, “Muscovite” and “Rossian” alike — and use these names “как синонимы, не вкладывая никакого иного смысла” (as synonyms, without attaching any other meaning to them). This is strong evidence that official Russian historiography has no continuous name “Russia” from Rus’. A source for the article “How ‘Rus” became ‘Russia’”.