This book by professor of Kiev-Mogilev Academy Natalia Iakovenko, an intellectual bestseller of recent years, offers an alternative view on the last ten centuries of Ukrainian history: 9th - 18th. It is very different from the accepted Ukrainian national narrative. It presents the history as a prolonged meeting of the West and the East, Orthodoxy and Islam, Catholicism and Orthodoxy, as the result of many interactions and conflicts. 233 illustrations. Bibliography. (1.235 kg.)