Medieval Rus'. What the sources are talking about. Gorsky A.

Anton Gorsky’s book is devoted to the debunking of stable myths about the Russian Middle Ages, which not only are rooted in our minds, but also entered the facts in school textbooks. But if you re -read the sources, we can find that the transfer of the nominal capital of Rus' from Kyiv to Vladimir did not occur under Yuri Dolgoruok in the 12th century, but a century after Alexander Nevsky and his descendants. The nicknames of the ancient Russian princes, as a rule, were not given to contemporaries, and Yaroslav became wise only at the end of the 19th century. Dmitry Donskoy always, even after the Battle of Kulikovo, considered Khan's power as legitimate. The word “slave”, which at the end of the XV-XVII century called themselves boyars in addressing the sovereign, dates back to the Turkic designation of the nobility, and its coincidence with the ancient Russian name of slaves is nothing more than the curiosity of the interaction of languages. About this and much more is described in this interesting book.

. Andon Gorsky - Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Department of History of Russia until the 19th century History Faculty of Moscow State University.