«Дюденева рать» и медные полы храмов Владимирской земли (к истории русско-ордынских отношений в XIII в.)

Шаги/Steps. 2021. Т. 7. № 3. С. 200–218.

Lavrentiev A.

During the winter of 1293–1294 the lands of North-
Eastern Rus’ survived the “Diudenev host”, the raid of Tatar

detachments led by Tudan (Diuden’ in the Russian chronicles),
sent by Khan Tokhta with the aim of expelling Grand Duke
Dmitry Alexandrovich and establishing his brother, Prince Andrei
Alexandrovich, a Golden Horde protégé, on the grand duke’s seat
in Vladimir. In the course of an unprecedented sweep of territory
by the Diuden’ troops, fourteen Russian cities, including Vladimir,
were captured and plundered. Among the material losses incurred
during the hostilities, the chronicles especially emphasize the
fact that the attackers took out to the Horde the copper slabs of
the floor of the main church of Russia, the Assumption Cathedral
of Vladimir (usually Tatar robbery of churches included only
items made of precious metals and expensive fabrics). Obviously,
during the same raid, another church of the Vladimir region, the
Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin in the city of Bogolyubovo,
lost its copper floors. The total cost of copper exported to the Horde
was equal to a third of the annual tribute paid by the grand dukes
to the Horde. Apparently the Gorodets prince, for lack of funds,
included the copper floors of the churches of the Vladimir region as
part of his payment to Khan Tokhta for the yarlyk for the title of
Grand Duke.

Keywords: медь, copper, Владимир, Vladimir, princely civil strife, Bogolyubovo, “Diudenev hosrt”, tribute to the Horde, Русь XIII в., Боголюбово, княжеские междоусобицы, «Дюденева рать», «выход» в Орду