The depreciation of the great jubilee: the celebrations of the 1150th anniversary of Russian statehood in Novgorod the Great (2012)
Journal: Studia z Dziejów Rosji i Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej
Year: 2016

The article is devoted to the subject of the 1150th anniversary of the Russian Statehood celebrated in September 2012. It was the liberal political commentary writings accompanying the original model of the jubilee celebrated in 1862 that was used as the point of reference of the rhetoric of the celebrations’ initiator, the President of Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev. This made the president of Russia refer very often to the “Epoch of the Great Reforms” (the 1860s, and 1870s). The article de