Russian thought of the 17th and 18th centuries on the Slavic homeland

Abstract

The article presents an overview of the views of Russian thinkers of the XVII^th and XVIII^th centuries on the issue of the Slavic homeland. The author examines the Danube basin hypothesis («Russian Primary Chronicle»), which dominated Russian historical thought from XII^th to XIX^th centuries, the hypothesis of the missing homeland (I. Giesel), the Asia Minor hypothesis (V.N. Tatishchev, M.V. Lomonosov) and notes that in the XVIII^th century historical thought of Russia the issue of the Slavic homeland had no independent significance and was treated within the more politically relevant issue of the origin of Russian state.