“Byzantine Myth” in the Historiography of Pre-Mongol Rus’ Pre-Mongol Rus’
Journal: Античная древность и средние века
Year: 2024

This article analyses the scholarly works of historians and art historians written from the mid-twentieth to the early-twenty-first century, discussing the Rus’ian-Byzantine contacts from the eleventh to thirteenth century. The author of this article highlights that addressing Byzantine history allows the researchers to interpret Rus’ as a state with the culture developing in parallel with the Byzantine, being in no way inferior to it. However, some of the researchers’ ideas are based on erroneo