Vasily Vasilievsky notes that the document, being the first legal act to regulate the trade of the Rus', capped off a long tradition of trade between Germany and Kievan Rus.
The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (1890-1906) noted that "almost every modern Byzantinist is Vasilievsky's disciple".
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He was the first to publish many medieval Greek sources relating to Russian history (Byzantium and the Pechenegs, 1872).
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