Abstract
The unrests of the Suzdal and Yaroslavl Magi, described in the chronicles in 1024 and 1071, are still interpreted by many researchers as manifestations of social rebellion. Previously, these protests were seen as anti-feudal uprisings, now - revolts against social stratification, princely administration and official Christianity. Researchers accepted the arguments of I. Ya. Froyanov, refuting the antifeudal nature of the speeches. But the researcher's remarks, which made it possible to doubt whether these phenomena were uprisings, went unnoticed. At the same time, many of the details of the speeches, which the researchers take for the features of an uprising, are more logically interpreted based on the social characteristics of the “witch-hunting”. And some signs of rebellion, contained in the description of the movements (features of the counterculture in the worldview of the Magi), most likely arose due to the peculiarities of the presentation of the position of the “out-group” in Old Rus literature.
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