Muderewych V. Crusade movement to Near East and Rus lands in the end of XI - at the beginning of XIII century.

This research work deals with the problem of the influence of crusade movement on the Near East and Rus lands in the end of XI - at the beginning of XIII century. Special emphasis is placed on the complex investigation of military-political, diplomatic and dynastic contacts of the Rus manorial dukes with crusades, who had symptomatic and more often fragmatic character. Also it is defined that Rus people took positively the latin idea of the rescue of God's Grave from disbelievers. According to the series of objective factors "rusychi" didn't take active part in the crusades. Crusades proved to have activated pilgrimages of rus people and influenced the development of military affaires of the Rus lands.