This study, based on a wide range of historical sources, as well as a range of research literature on relevant topics, is designed to clarify the place and role of interreligious dialogue in the historical process of the formation of the Ancient Russian centralized state. The study raises the issue of the importance of the factor of interreligious dialogue in the development of statehood, both in foreign policy and domestic aspects. The authors set themselves the task of considering the most important, in our opinion range of historical subjects that took place in the 10–16 centuries in the context of the formation of the civilizational identity of the Ancient Russian centralized state.
Muscovite State; Ancient Rus; Golden Horde; Orthodox Church; Islam; interreligious dialogue; unified centralized Russian state.