THE CAMPAIGNS OF THE RUS’ IN THE BALKANS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 9TH AND THE END OF THE 10TH CENTURIES IN UKRAINIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE TURN OF THE XX – XXI CENTURIES
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2024
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Plovdiv University Press "Paisii Hilendarski"
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The report includes preliminary results of the research on this topic within the framework of the grant of the Russian Science Foundation “Ukrainian Historiography of Medieval Rus’ at the End of XX – Beginning of XXI Centuries: Concepts, Origins, Trends”. It draws attention mainly to the internal aspect and consequences of the campaigns of the Rus’ against the “Greeks” and Bulgarians: changes in the composition of participants in connection with the dynamics of the structures of Rus’ from the middle of the ninth to the end of the tenth century, creating favorable conditions for Christianization. From the external aspects the emphasis is made only on the desire of Svyatoslav to move the capital of Rus’ to the territory of Bulgaria and the beginning of the Pecheneg aggression as a reaction of Byzantium to the campaigns of Svyatoslav. Original, though contradictory to the sources, is the point of view that in 987 the “Tauro-Scythian” help to the basileus was rendered not against the rebellion of Bardas Phokas, but against the Bulgarians. A lot of attention is paid to Vladimir’s “forced” campaign to Korsun in 988, its religious and political consequences. In addition, an interesting idea of Pritsak is presented, who calls the Rus’ “the nomads of the sea”, comparing their model of interaction with sedentary societies with that of the steppe nomads.
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campaigns against Byzantium, the Rus’ people, politics, economy, religion, Ukrainian historiography of Ancient Rus’