Насилие татар над митрополитом Максимом и разграбление Киева в 1299 г.: причины, обстоятельства и последствия событий, которых «не было»

Abstract

Research objectives: This article presents a critical analysis and deconstruction of historiographical ideas about the reasons for Kiev Metropolitan Maxim’s move to Vladimir. Much attention is paid to comparing the prevailing opinions in Russian scholarship with the data of ancient Russian sources and archaeology. The most plausible reasons and motives that prompted the Russian hierarch to change his place of residence are exa­mined, and the circumstances of the metropolitan’s relocation are substantially clarified. Research materials: Old Russian sources and Russian historiography. Results and novelty of the research: The prevailing view for the reasons and circumstances behind the move of Metropolitan Maxim to Vladimir, an even described in Russian church historiography, is based on the erroneous opinion of Prof. E.E. Golubinsky. The source data and the sequence of events allow us to conclude that the metropolitan’s move was a well-planned action designed to solve many problems. Following the death of Nogai, and in the face of the growing political ambitions of the Galicia-Volyn princes, Byzantium tried to draw closer to Sarai. In Kiev, the inhabitants feared the attacks of disparate Tatar detachments, but were most afraid of being at the epicenter of the war between the Horde, Lithuania, and Galich over Kiev. Relations between the metropolitans and the South Russian episcopate remained extremely difficult. Under such conditions, the move of the Metropolitan to Vladimir became a logical and well-thought-out response.