Rusologia as a complex scientific study of Earlyrus

The article provides a definition of a prospective complex scientific discipline on Rus - rusologia (russologie). The author dwells on the resource-base and borrowed names of individual periods of history of Rus, demonstrates nomination analogies relevant for a complex historical study of states other than Rus, and lists innovative scientific methods peculiar to this particular discipline. The article contains illustrations, which serve to demonstrate the potential of the new epigraphic research methods, and presents critical views of them, as well as the author''s arguments in their favour. The author dares to assume that rusologia (russologie) is to become a complex scientific discipline, a distinct study of Rus and its inhabitants (the rusiches). With Rus''s population worshiping different Vedic gods on an alternating basis, the author deems it consistent to nominalise each period of Rus''s history accordingly. Thus, the subdisciplines of rusologia (rossulogie) are Mokosh/ (Mokos) - rusologia, Mara-rusologia, Rod-rusologia, Yar-rusologia, Arctorusologia, Slavic-rusologia and Pre-Romanov-rusologia. Each subdiscipline is responsible for a particular period of the historical development of Rus and the rusiches. Later periods are central to the study of such disciplines as Russian cultural anthropology, Russian historiography, the old and modern Russian language etc. Slavic-rusologia is known to a certain, though much too limited, extent as the history of Early Rus. The pre-Yar-rusologia subdisciplines are but vaguely outlined and are an as-yet-untapped source of historical knowledge. (All the Russian-language terminology is transliterated)