SFENGUS – AN UNKNOWN TO ANNALS BROTHER OF VLADIMIR THE SAINT? "UKRAINIAN" VERSIONS
Journal: ВЕСТНИК Брянского государственного университета
Year: 2024

The article is devoted to problems of structure of a ruling dynasty of the Ancient Russian state, possibility of existence in the tenth century not only the Rurikid, but also other Russian ruling clans, Chernigov's - in particular. Consideration of these questions is carried out on the basis of the analysis of the Ukrainian (and not only) historiography of a separate episode Ancient Rus’s foreign policy, covered at the Byzantium authors John Skylitzes and George Kedrenos: participation of Sfengu