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6 - North-eastern Russia and the Golden Horde (1246–1359)

from Part I - Early Rus’ and the Rise of Muscovy (c. 900–1462)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2008

By
Janet Martin
Edited by
Maureen Perrie
Maureen Perrie
Affiliation:
University of Birmingham
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Summary

On the eve of the Mongol invasion two institutions had given definition to Kievan Rus’. One was the ruling Riurikid dynasty, whose senior prince ruled Kiev. The other was the Orthodox Christian Church headed by the metropolitan, also based at Kiev. Although the component principalities of Kievan Rus’ had multiplied and had become the hereditary domains of separate branches of the dynasty, subjecting the state to centrifugal pressures, they all recognised Kiev as the symbolic political and ecclesiastic centre of a common realm and were bound together by dynastic, political, cultural and commercial ties.

The principality that comprised the north-eastern territories of Kievan Rus’ was Vladimir, also known as Suzdalia, Rostov-Suzdal’, and Vladimir-Suzdal’. Centred around the upper Volga and Oka River basins, its territories were bounded by Novgorod to the north and west, Smolensk to the south-west, and Chernigov and Riazan’ to the south. The eastern frontier of Vladimir-Suzdal’ stretched to Nizhnii Novgorod on the Volga; beyond lay lands and peoples subject to the Volga Bulgars.

Vladimir-Suzdal’ was the realm of the branch of the dynasty descended from Iurii Dolgorukii (1149–57) and his son Vsevolod ‘Big Nest’ (1176–1212). When the Mongols invaded the Russian lands, Vsevolod’s son Iurii, the eldest member of the senior generation of this branch of the dynasty, was recognised, according to principles common to all the principalities of Kievan Rus’, as the senior prince of his branch of the dynasty. He was, therefore, the grand prince of Vladimir. Despite his detachment from Kievan politics, the legitimacy of Iurii’s rule in Vladimir derived from his place in the dynasty.

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Golden HordeKievan Rus'demographic shifteconomic dislocationdynastic reorganisationRiurikid dynastyorthodox churchnorth-eastern Russiaterritorial reorientation
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The Cambridge History of Russia , pp. 127 - 157
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2006

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