Медиаторы в политике средневековой Руси

Древнейшие государства Восточной Европы. 2025. Т. 2025 год. С. 125–139.

Лавренченко М. Л.

The article examines the status and functions of peace mediators in conflicts of the pre-Mongol Rus’ based on materials of three chronicles: the Primary Chronicle, the Kievan Chronicle (according to the Hypatian and similar manuscripts) and the First Novgorodian Chronicle. Among mediators of this period, two main groups can be distinguished: (1) the closest younger relatives of one of the competitors; these juniors could be both the initiators of a truce agreement and intermediate persons whom a defeated enemy applied to; and (2) peacemakers, who, on the contrary, were maximally distanced from the conflict and who had no personal interest in it, but had a very high status of a ruler or similar. Often, such a mediator could be a foreign ruler, usually of a neighboring land. The political practices used to end conflicts in the medieval Rus’ demonstrate a wide range of people involved, including young princes, widowed princesses, clergy: metropolitans, bishops and abbots of famous monasteries. The negotiation process itself could take

Keywords: дипломатия, тектология, конфликтология, conflictology, diplomacy, Новгородская летопись, Лаврентьевская летопись, Old Rus' chronicles, slavic textology, древнерусские летописи, Laurentian chronicle, Kyivan Chronicle, Киевская летопись, First Novgorodian Chronicle