Historiographical notes about the origin of the prince and the prince's power institute in medieval Rus society
Journal Title: Eminak - Year 2016, Vol 1, Issue 2
Abstract
the article on the basis of study monographs and periodical literature were outlines certain directions of formation of the historiographical tradition of study the origin and formation of the princely power institute in Russia and its influence on the formation of statehood in the eastern Slavs. Imperial Russian historians as modern Russian historians hold the view that the history of Kievan Rus belongs to a united indivisible Russian nation and Ukrainian and Belarusian nations is its subgroups, their culture and language – is accordingly variants of Russian culture and dialects of the Russian language, rather than separate language and cultural phenomena. Russian westerners and slavophiles, according to their own ideas about the ways of Russian development talked about the beginnings of princely power and dynastic kinship of Moscow- Russian princes with the Rurik dynasty. Westerners were willing to identify legend about calling Vikings to Rus with contemporary European state creation tradition. They emphasized the similarity of legends about the origin of medieval European states. Slavophiles linked the emergence of Rus statehood with Orthodox Byzantine tradition. They emphasized the Slavic origin of Vikings and called princes. Soviet historians have written about the Kievan Rus as the cradle of three fraternal peoples. The historians always had a problem of finding sources which could fill their own thoughts and interpretations about the origin of princely power institute in the eastern Slavs. In Soviet medieval studies ruled the Marxist approach which put forward on the first place the evolution of socio-economic relations in the eastern Slavs. Ukrainian historiography, on the contrary, considers Kievan Rus as fundamental Ukrainian state and asserts that the differences between the Russians and Ukrainians were visible and quite substantial during medieval times. Despite the significant results of the scientific research that defined the ideological and political and historical views of scientists on the origin of the state and the princely dynasty in Rus, now is again rised the discussion related to membership rights to be called Slavic state between Ukrainian and Russian medievalists. Half-forgotten viewings and seemingly desires returned only a scientific issue into the mainstream of ideological confrontation. There are works, which prove Slavic origin of Vikings and Rurik, and also of the Kyiv princely dynasty. «Cursed questions» of Ruthenian history doesn't want to go into the past.
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Petro Yushchenko
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