The paper attempts to summarize and re-assess the current status of research on the so-called Crown of Monomachos, an enamel object found in the territory of Slovakia in the second half of the 19th century. The author presents the most recent polemics as to the authenticity, provenience and the original intention and use of the object, being considered by various authors as a diadem, princely or royal crown, or a triumphal arm-ring. The paper argues in favour of the attribution as a female diadem, plausibly belonging to Anastasia of Kievan Rus – given the universal motifs applied mostly in the eastern part of the Byzantine sphere of influence.
This article considers the process of acceptance of Christianity by the Rus during the reign of Vladimir and the question of the choice of religion facing the ruler of Kiev as a result of the interest of four great religions in Kievan Rus. It is also devoted to the Khazar question, which is inseparably linked with the “choice of religion”. As a result of the acceptance of Judaism by the Khazars, this question is directly connected with the historical development of the Jewish nation and its role in the formation of Kievan Rus.
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The article attempts to trace inspirations by the culture of pre-Mongolian Rus’ in the works of father Pavel Florensky (1882-1937), a prominent philosopher of the Russian religious renaissance of the early XXth century. Relying upon Florensky’s writings, Old Russian literary artefacts and scholarly findings of medievalists (mainly art historians and philologists), the author seeks to highlight an important, albeit somewhat forgotten, source of Florensky’s philosophical teaching - the Christian cultural tradition of Old Rus’. Apparently, it is this tradition that played an essential role in Florensky’s development into an original philosopher, shaping fundamentals of the metaphysics of All-Unity which has been recognized as Florensky’s main philosophical achievement.
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