Some Features of Foreign Policy Relations of Galician-Volyn Rus in the XIII century

Abstract

In the article, the author, proceeding from the fact that the Galician-Volyn land (previously the south-western region of the land of the former Kievan Rus was an integral part of the all-Russian space, shows the multivector character of its foreign policy. One of the sources for the study of the topic is the Galician-Volyn chronicle in the Ipatiev list of the XV century. and in the Khlebnikov code of the XVI century as well as the research of A. A. Shakhmatov, D. S. Likhachev, M. D. Priselkov. The works by the historians of the XIX century and those of the period of 1939–1960 are also taken into account. The object of the study is the history of the Galician- Volyn principality while its subject is the characteristics of the foreign policy relations of Galician-Volyn Rus in the XIII century. An attempt is made to complete the following tasks: to study the role of the Galician-Volyn princes in the Russian strife, to characterize their relations with Europe, to identify the character of their relations with the Horde. The methodological basis of the research is the historical-chronological, historical-comparative and historical-descriptive methods, which allowed us to reveal some peculiarities of the relations of the southwestern lands with the neighboring principalities as well as some features of the social and political development of the Galician-Volyn land. From the point of view of identification, the issues of the relationship of the studied territory with the West and the East have not lost their relevance at the present time.