Князь и митрополит. Первый кризис Русской церкви (1049-1058)

M. : Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2025.

Vinogradov A.

In the mid-11th century, Rus' was gripped by a church and political crisis: in an effort to strengthen the position of the Russian Church, Prince Yaroslav appointed Metropolitan Hilarion to the episcopal see in Kiev in 1051 without the consent of the Patriarch of Constantinople. This step was seen, on the one hand, as an attempt to strengthen the control of the princely power over the Russian Church, and on the other, to weaken the influence of Constantinople on it. The book is the first comprehensive study analyzing the history and consequences of this decision based on the few sources that have come down to us. The author pays attention to important contextual subjects from the church and political history of pre-Mongol Rus': the emergence of new bishoprics and monasteries, the establishment of the cult of Saints Boris and Gleb, the formation of Russian narratives about the baptism of Prince Vladimir, the reaction of church leaders to the "Great Schism" of 1054 and the practice of re-consecration of churches. The work presents both well-known and recent data related to chronology, church building and polemics of that time, and the events of ancient Russian history are placed in the context of the interrelationships between the Byzantine and Western European worlds.

Keywords: Ярослав Мудрый, Русская Церковь