Игорь Данилевский. Был ли Рюрик скандинавом, или на каких языках говорили при дворе киевского князя

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Igor Danilevsky. Was Rurik Scandinavian, or What Languages ​​Were Spoken at the Court of the Prince of Kiev?

On October 1, 2017, the seventh lecture in the "Ancient Rus' and Scandinavia" series was held. The lecture, "Was Rurik Scandinavian, or What Languages ​​Were Spoken at the Court of the Prince of Kyiv?" was presented by Igor Nikolaevich Danilevsky, Doctor of History, Professor at the Higher School of Economics, and Chief Researcher at the Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

In 1836, an article by Dorpat professor Friedrich Karl Hermann Kruse appeared in the Journal of the Ministry of Public Education. He suggested that the Rurik mentioned in the chronicles was none other than Rurik of Friesland (or Jutland), known from Western European sources. Since then, many historians have attempted to substantiate this idea in one way or another. However, many serious researchers immediately criticized it. So which of them is right? Was the Rurik in the chronicles even real, and if so, was he Scandinavian? Or is this a legend that the chronicler, for some reason, felt it necessary to include in his account? Whatever the answers to these questions, what's far more important is that virtually all ancient Russian princes were… foreigners by origin. Their mothers, as a rule, came from noble families in neighboring (and not so neighboring) states. But if this is true, what languages ​​were spoken at the court of the Kyiv prince? And was Vladimir Monomakh's father, for example, such a rare exception, knowing five languages ​​without ever leaving home?

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