How do we remember this day in history . Lets tell you right now . Hello, september 21, 862 is considered to be the beginning of russian statehood, because the ancient russian chronicle the tale of bygone years indicates that it was on this day that the slavic tribes invited the three varangian brothers rurik, vladoga sineus, to white lake to reign, and the trumpeters in izborsk, historians have long been arguing about did this really happen, of course, among the slavic varangians before the scandinavians. Their own state institutions were born, but the first the dynasty of moscow kings really dates back to the legendary ruriko. Hasama, a conventional date, but generally accepted in the 19th century. On this day. In Veliky Novgorod , the 1,000th anniversary of our statehood was celebrated magnificently and a grandiose ceremony was established in honor of this. On september 21, 1799, the Alpine Campaign of the russian army led by Alexander Suvorov began , Emperor Pavel the first did not