M. S. Hrushevsky as an Old East Slavic chronicles researcher
Journal Title: Вісник Дніпропетровського університету. Серія Історія та археологія. - Year 2017, Vol 25, Issue 1
Abstract
The author analyzes scientific studies of M. S. Hrushevsky, which directly or indirectly are connected with Old East Slavic chronicles characteristics as specific historical sources. The article determines famous scientistʼs conceptual approaches to such topics as chronicles textsʼ attribution, determination of the content authenticity, information capa-bilities to investigate the history of the Kievan Rusʼ. It is ascertained, what are the main problematic issues, discrepan-cies, thematic and conceptual lacunae according to the M. Hrushevsky were the obstacle while researching Old East Slavic chronicles as a sources complex in the Ukrainian historiography of XXth century. The most weighty contribution was made by M. S. Hrushevsky to the Galician-Volhynian Chronicle studies. He reconstructed in depth the chronology of Galician-Volhynian Chronicle, and proved that this chronicle was firstly composed as a narrative ignoring dates. Only later someone filled out the dates while editing the text, but «in a very random and false way». The author of the article makes a conclusion that in general M. Hrushevsky has described Old East Slavic chronicles as a "«golden age of Kievan Rusʼ culture". However, only poor fragments of the chronicleʼs tradition remained by the turn of XXth century, being interrupted by the Mongol invasion. Thatʼs why the scientist warned historians against attributing the Old East Slavic chronicles with irrelevant "significant forms", since as reported in his researches there werenʼt enough sources to make such conclusions. The article demonstrates that the most typical features of the chronicles according to M. Hrushevsky were: significant impact of the Christian ideology, symptomatic loyalty to "knyaz-druzhina" system (governing classes in Kievan Rusʼ), content originality and stylistic ingenuousness, predominating collectivity and ano-nymity of the authorship. It is stated that Ukrainian historian has also defined main challenges for future researchers of Old East Slavic chronicles as historical sources. These challenges are aimed at the reconstruction of chronicles initial look (deprived of following supplements) through the comparison study of different collections and fragments.
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Viktor Voronov
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