All (tribe)

Arab geographers of the X - XIV centuries mention the Visu people, who lived north of the Volga-Kama Bulgaria , next to the Ugra . In the books of Ahmet Ibn Fadlan and al-Garnati visu are mentioned along with the Arv people. Bulgarian merchants traded with Visa , exporting furs in exchange for metal products. There is an assumption that the term "vishu" means exactly the whole.

... at a distance of three months, there lives a people called Visu, whose night is less than an hour. But I saw that during sunrise, everything in this country, the earth and mountains, turns red, and every thing that a person does not look at before sunrise, is shown as a big cloud; this redness continues until the sun rises to its zenith. The inhabitants of the country told me that in winter the night becomes long as a (summer) day, and the day turns into the shortness of the night, so if any of them sets off at dawn to the Itil River, which is less than farce from them, it reaches it only in the late evening, at the time of the appearance of all the stars covering the sky. I noticed that they consider themselves blessed, I bark at the dogs, and say that the coming year will be fruitful, blessing and welfare. I saw many snakes among them, so that a dozen or more snake around a tree branch; they are not killed and they do not harm them. They have green, very sour apples; their girls eat and become fat. In their country there is nothing in such abundance as a tree chest; I saw from it forests of forty Farsangs in length and breadth. I saw a tree of unusual height unknown to me: its trunk is without leaves, and its top is palm-like, its leaves are thin, but gathered together. They come to a place they know in the trunk of this tree, drill it and substitute a vessel into which a liquid surpassing honey flows from a drilled hole; if a person drinks it a lot, then he gets drunk as if from wine. Their main food is millet and horse meat, despite the fact that in their country there is a lot of wheat and barley. Everyone who sows something takes it for himself, but the king does not get anything from it; only they give him a bullock to the house, and when he orders the detachment to go on a raid on some country, then he receives a part of the booty. They have no other oil than fish oil (fat), which they use instead of olive and sesame oil ... Ibn Fadlan ( Note )

With all (Belozersky and Egonsky) and the least archaeologists usually relate the monuments of the Dyakovo archaeological culture that existed in the north of the Russian Plain until the 5th - 6th centuries.

Directly with all scientists, they often associate the culture of the mounds of the southeastern Ladoga , dating from the 9th - 13th centuries . The distribution area of ​​this culture is the Syasya , Tikhvinka , Kapsha , Pasha , Voronezhka , Oyat , Svir , Olonka , Tuloksa , Vidlitsa rivers and the northern coast of Lake Onega . The mounds themselves are rounded embankments 0.6–3 m high, 5–12 m in diameter, with people buried. The internal structure repeats the structure of the dwelling, with a hearth and household utensils, which corresponded to the notions of the afterlife as a continuation of ordinary life. In early burials with cadaverization there are some things of Scandinavian origin. The proof of the correlation of this culture with the annals is the study of hydronymy along the Oyat River . The second oldest, after the Sami , in this region a layer of Vepsian names was revealed ^[1] .

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• Mainov V.N. Nestorova Ves and Korelsky children. // Picturesque Russia . 1881. T I. Part 2 p. 493-527.
• Golubeva L.A. The whole and the Slavs on the White Lake X-XIII centuries. - M., 1973
• Kochkurkina S.I. , Linevsky A.M. Mounds of chronicle weight. Petrozavodsk, 1985
• Kochkurkina S.I. Monuments of the South-East Ladoga and Prionezhie. Petrozavodsk, 1989
• Kochkurkina S.I. Treasures of the ancient Vepsians. Petrozavodsk, 1990
• Golubeva L.A., Kochkurkina S.I. Belozerskaya whole (based on materials from the Krutik settlement of the 9th – 10th centuries). Petrozavodsk, 1991