Abstract
This article contributes to the existing literature on the “History of the Rus’,” at once the most mysterious and the most influential product of Ukrainian Cossack historiography, in three major respects. First, it challenges the dominant historiographic trend that treats the “History” as a manifestation of growing national self-awareness of Ukrainian elites. Second, it contributes to the perennial search for the author of the “History” by claiming that the manuscript was written soon after 1800, effectively locating the work in the realm of nineteenth-century historiography. Third, it attempts to identify the author and title of the work that provoked the “History of the Rus’“—an approach overlooked or deemed impossible of realization by all students of the “History.” More than anything else, however, this article takes the debate out of the Procrustean bed into which it was forced by the national narratives of a later era, both Ukrainian and all-Russian. It emphasizes the simple fact that historians have little control over the use of their narratives.
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