Славянская культура

Slavs in the early Middle Ages occupied large areas of Central and Eastern Europe, and above all, to the land of the Indo-European family of languages, of which they were in the same group with the Balts.

With regard to their ancestral home - there is a great divergence of opinion, but most scholars today tends to look him in the northern basin of the Dnieper and Desna. In Europe from the middle of the XIX century historical science seeks to determine the characteristics of the Slavic culture. In later works (the second half of the twentieth century), the researchers concluded that after the great migrations in the territorial area was no longer a unified Slavic culture. Historians involved in determining the characteristics of the Slavic culture - is, first and foremost, Alexander Brueckner and Lubor Niederle.

Russian scientists and popularizers idea of ​​Pan-Slavism - Basile Dovzhenok, Greeks, Yuzhkov Koropatkin and tried to prove that the Slavic culture has its origins in the East, but these claims have not been confirmed by documents or archaeological evidence.