Title of the article:

RAGUIL DOBRYNICH AS A HISTORICAL FIGURE

Author(s):

Kozlov, M.N., Boytsova, E.E.

Information about the author/authors

Mikhail N. Kozlov — DSc in History, Professor of the Department of General History and World Culture, Institute of Social Sciences and International Relations, Sevastopol State University, Universitetskaya St., 33, 299053 Sevastopol, Russia.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3535-8796
E-mail: kmn_75@mail.ru

Elena E. Boytsova — PhD in History, Head of the Department of General History and World Culture, Institute of Social Sciences and International Relations, Sevastopol State University, Universitetskaya St., 33, 299053 Sevastopol, Russia.
ORCIDID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8321-6162
E-mail: e.e.bojtsova@mail.sevsu.ru

Section

Theory and history of culture

Year

2024

Volume

Vol. 72

Pages

pp. 142–153

Received

September 24, 2023

Approved after reviewing

May 30, 2024

Date of publication

June 25, 2024

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2024-72-142-153

Index UDK

009+94(47)

Index BBK

85.33 (4):71.0 (2-Рос)

Abstract

The research comes up with the reconstruction of the biography of one of the most prominent historical figures of Ancient Rus' of the 12th century — Novgorod boyar Raguil Dobrynich, involving special methods of cognition (historical-analytical and problematical-chronological). The materials constituting the basis of the study were analyzed taking into account the chronology of events and the need to obtain historical information from the scientific sources under study. The authors used the method of comparative and retrospective analysis when comparing different theoretical views upon the chosen issue. The paper provides a historiographic analysis of the issue and identifies the main relevant sources in question. Basing on the texts of Old Russian chronicles, as well as the contents of birch bark letter No. 831, the authors reconstructed the Novgorod period of the biography of Raguil Dobrynich, and outlined his role in the historical events associated with the expulsion and murder of Prince Igor Olegovich. The study pays special attention to the analysis of the historical events of 1170 related to the revolt of the Novgorod squad against their prince Vladimir Mstislavich, in which Raguil Dobrynich played a key role. The research allowed concluding that Raguil Dobrynich belonged to the glorious Novgorod Dobrynich family and was the son of the eighth Novgorod mayor. With the squad of Prince Vladimir Mstislavich, he took part in many historical events of the second half of the 12th century and ended his political career in one of the administrative positions in ancient Novgorod.

Keywords

Prince Vladimir Mstislavich, Prince Igor Olegovich, Ladoga Mayor, Thousand Raguil Dobrynich.

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