«CASES OF SUDISLAV»: EXPERIENCE OF HYPOTHETICAL RECONSTRUCTION

Abstract

This work is devoted to the consideration of some details of the historical plot connected with the fate of the younger brother of the famous Prince Yaroslav the Wise - Sudislav Vladimirovich, who spent about 24 years in prison on a knowingly false charge. Traditionally, the details of this historical plot were considered in the context, first of all, of Russian history - the history of Old Rus itself as an administrative-political system and its own as a center for the consolidation of East Slavic ethno-political formations. Rarely have its researchers addressed the issues of the functioning of old Rus statehood in a broad context - as an integral and integral part of a single Eastern and Southern European military-political "symphony". It should be noted that, according to a number of researchers, the first half of the 11th century in Russian history was a time during which the plots of local Russian history were closely intertwined with numerous issues of foreign and domestic political topics - from the Balkan and North Caucasian issues to the Baltic and West Slavic problems. The author of this article considers it possible to pay attention when considering the stated topic to some of its indirect and not always obvious connections and contexts. An analysis and comparison of currently available sources and hypotheses allows us to assume an unobvious influence on the events under consideration of a number of factors - from traditional family inheritance to specific features of foreign policy battles traditional on the East European Plain. The term “hypothetical” accentuated in the title indicates the author’s desire to note the possibility and even some necessity of the emergence of a discussion aimed at increasing the degree of actualization of the plot considered in this article.