EARLY MEDIAEVAL HISTORY OF INDIA AS REFLECTED IN THE WORKS OF RUSSIAN INDOLOGISTS MEDIAEVALISTS
The article surveys the publications by Russian Indologists dedicated to the study of sources for socioeconomic history of both Northern and Southern India, and also for the history of India in mediaeval times (4<sup>th</sup>-12<sup>th</sup> cc.), beginning from Great Gupta Empire till Muslim invasion. Mainly analyzed are the works of Eugene M. Medvedev, Leonid B. Alaev, Dmitry N. Lelyukhin, and Alexander A. Stolyarov.