Retelling of the praise to Vladimir Svyatoslavich, known from the ‘Tale of Bygone Years’ (996), on behalf of a Russian scribe of the middle of the XVI century

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https://doi.org/10.54700/58qg7290

Keywords:

the image of the holy prince, evaluative characteristics, social work, autocratic and autocratic power, God-established power, feast

Abstract

The article contains an analysis of a detailed commendable section in the Life of Vladimir Svyatoslavich, compiled for the “Stepennaya Book” at the turn of the 50-60s. of the 16th century. It reveals and evaluates the nature of the lexico-phraseological and structural-content changes introduced into the given text in comparison with its literary sources, and in this way the ideological tasks of the compiler of the Life are determined.

Author Biography

  • Vladimir Mikhailovich Kirillin, Sretensky Theological Academy

    ScD in Philology, Professor
    A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the RAS,
    Sretensky Theological Academy,
    Moscow Theological Academy (Russia)

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Published

2025-10-30

Issue

No. 3 (2022)

Section

Historical Theology

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