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Name: Melnichuk Valentina Aleksandrovna

Authors: Stylistic devices in characterizing the Smolensk Princes Rostislaviches in the 12th Century Kiev Chronicle

Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

In the section Study of literature

Abstract: The paper analyses the literary descriptions of the Smolensk Princes Rostislaviches in the Kiev Chronicles of the 12th century. With a purposeful text revision, the editor of the Chronicles hegumen Moses accentuated the continuity line of grand-ducal authority from Vladimir Monomakh’s father to the representative of the younger line of his great grandsons, Rurik Rostislavich.

Keywords: kiev chronicle of the 12th century, images of the smolensk princes, hegumen moses, historical narrative, editorial correction

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