Presentation on the topic: Political fragmentation in Russia. Specific Russia (XII - XIII centuries)
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Presentation on the topic: Political fragmentation in Russia. Specific Russia (XII - XIII centuries)
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Plan.1. Causes of the political fragmentation of Russia and its consequences. Main models.2. Economy, political system, culture of the Vladimir-Suzdal principality. (Yu. Dolgoruky, A. Bogolyubsky, Vsevolod the Big Nest).3. Economy and government structure of the Novgorod land.4. Galicia-Volyn principality.5. Kievan principality.
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The reasons for the fragmentation of Russia: Socio-economic: 1) the expansion of large patrimonial land ownership; 2) the growth of cities - local centers; 3) the dominance of natural economy; 4) the weakness and irregularity of trade relations; 5) the movement of trade routes to the northeast and southwest Russian lands Political: 1) the desire of local elites for independence from Kyiv and control over their authorities; 2) inter-princely strife, political separatism; 3) increased Polovtsian danger (the population leaves dangerous areas)
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Consequences of fragmentation. Positive:1. Economic development of the lands, the rise of cities - local centers. Development of crafts and trade.2. Formation of the apparatus of power, taking into account the peculiarities of the geographical position of the earth, the features of economic activity.3. The formation of certain traditions in culture, architecture, fine arts, literature, social thought, oral folk art. Negative: 1. Separations are accompanied by civil strife, in which Russian rati fight against each other.2. The fragmentation of land will continue, the inheritances will become smaller and smaller.3. The weakening of the defense capability of Russian lands, the inability to resist a strong enemy.4. The collapse of ties between individual Russian lands, the isolation of many of them from Europe, the decline in the international prestige of the Russian land.
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The main models of the relationship between power and society in a specific era: 1) The tradition of strong and authoritarian princely power. It is in the hands of the prince that all the main threads of managing his land are concentrated, his power is not much limited and the main law of the land is the will and word of the prince himself. (Vladimir-Suzdal book). 2) the princely-boyar tradition, when, along with a strong prince, no less politically strong boyars are formed. And then the government is looking for a compromise between these forces. (Galicia-Volyn land) 3) - a veche tradition, democratic, involving the involvement and participation of the people in the process of developing power decisions (Novgorod and Pskov republics). Each of these traditions implies a different way of thinking of their representatives, a different degree of involvement of the people in power.
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Northeast Russia. Vladimir-Suzdal principality. separated from Kyiv under Prince Yuri Dolgoruky (1125 - 1157). (the region was covered with impenetrable forests), the fertile lands of the Russian opolye, navigable rivers along which dozens of cities grew (Pereslavl-Zalessky, Yuryev-Polsky, Dmitrov, Zvenigorod, Kostroma, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod). There were no old boyar estates and strong traditions of city self-government in 1147. - the first mention in the annals of Moscow. Andrei Bogolyubsky (1157 - 1174). the capital of the principality was moved to Vladimir, a new title of the ruler was established - "Tsar and Grand Duke". Andrei Bogolyubsky led an active foreign policy, fought for influence in Kyiv and Novgorod, organizing all-Russian campaigns against them. Vsevolod the Big Nest (1176 - 1212), the principality reached its peak, interrupted by civil strife.
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Galicia-Volyn principality (formed in 1199). Boyar estates and cities were traditionally strong. Until the end of the 12th century, there were 2 separate volosts - Volyn land and Galicia. On Volyn land - older Monomashichs fought with Younger Monomashichs (Yu. Dolgoruky, A. Bogolyubsky) and Olgovichi. Galician land surrounded by neighbors - Poland, Hungary, Polovtsy. Heyday under Yaroslav Osmomysl (1152-1187) Roman Mstislavovich Volynsky in 1199. united the territory into the Galicia-Volyn principality. Daniil Romanovich expanded the territory, fought the Mongols, but in 1250. He submitted to the Golden Horde. Internal unrest and constant wars with Hungary, Poland and Lithuania led to the fact that it was included in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Poland.
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Kievan principality. Located in the south of the Russian lands, it is going through far from the best of times, the value of the trade route “from the Varangians to the Greeks” is declining. Significantly reduced in size, losing political influence. Kyiv land became the scene of internecine struggle. Therefore, people prefer to move to the north. Sometimes the Kievan elites were even forced to recognize two princes at once as their princes - a kind of duumvirate was established. In 1169, the center of the great reign was formally transferred from Kyiv to his capital, Vladimir-on-Klyazma, by Prince Andrei Bogolyubsky. The last Kyiv prince, before the Batu invasion, Daniil Romanovich Galitsky did not even live in Kyiv himself, but appointed a posadnik - governor Dmitry.
ESSAY
RUSSIA IN THE PERIOD OF FEUDAL Fragmentation ( XII- 13th century)
PLAN.
REASONS AND ESSENCE
1. The reasons.
1.1. Change of early feudal monarchy
1.2. Division of labor.
1.3. Strengthening the political power of local princes and boyars.
1.4. First strife.
1.5. Russia in the middle of the XI century.
1.6. strife at the end of the 11th century.
2. Essence.
2.1. The weakening of the country on the eve of the Mongol-Tatar invasion.
2.2. The collapse of a single state.
SOCIAL - ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
1. Agriculture.
1.1. General characteristics.
1.2. Benefits of estates.
1.3. feudal landownership.
1.4. Enslavement of the peasants.
1.5. exploitation of the peasants.
2. City and craft XII - XIII centuries
2.1. Formation of market relations.
2.2. Urban population.
2.3. Associations.
2.4. Trade and craft nobility.
2.5. Veche meetings.
STATE - POLITICAL STRUCTURE AND MANAGEMENT.
1. Prince's power.
1.1. Princely power.
1.2. political centers.
1.3. All-Russian congresses.
2. Vassals and overlords.
2.1. Scheme of government in small principalities.
2.2. Boyars.
2.3. The role of the clergy in the administration of the principality.
RUSSIAN LANDS AND PRINCIPALITIES IN XII - FIRST HALF XIII in.
1. Vladimir-Suzdal principality.
1.1. Expanding the boundaries.
1.2. City.
1.3. Protecting cities from enemies.
1.4. Indigenous population.
1.5. Conditions for the development of trade, crafts, trade, agriculture, and cattle breeding.
1.6. Princely and boyar land tenure.
1.7. Peculiarities.
1.8. political device.
1.9. major political events.
1.10. The rise of the principality.
1.11. Decay.
2. Galicia-Volyn principality.
2.1. Borders.
2.2. Cities.
2.3. Population.
2.4. Trade routes.
2.5. Conditions for the development of agriculture, cattle breeding, feudal relations, crafts.
2.6. Political life.
2.7. The basis for the restoration of princely power.
2.8. Daniil Romanovich's statement.
3. Novgorod feudal republic.
3.1. Borders.
3.2. Spots.
3.3. Hundreds and graveyards.
3.4. Suburbs.
3.5. Population.
3.6. Conditions for the development of fishing, trade, handicrafts, iron ore mining.
3.7. Features of social - economic development.
3.9. Craft and merchant associations.
3.10. Colonization.
3.11. political system.
4. Kievan principality.
4.1. Loss of national significance.
4.2. Kyiv is the arena of hostilities.
5. Chernigov and Smolensk principalities.
5.1. Allocation of Chernihiv land.
5.2. Fight for Kyiv.
6. Polotsk - Minsk land.
6.1. Isolation from Kyiv.
6.2. Crushing of the Polotsk-Minsk land.
CONCLUSION.
INTRODUCTION.
Feudal fragmentation in Russia was a natural result of the economic and political development of early feudal society.
The formation in the Old Russian state of large land ownership - estates - under the dominance of natural economy inevitably made them completely independent production complexes, the economic ties of which were limited to the nearest district.
The emerging class of feudal landowners sought to establish various forms of economic and legal dependence of the agricultural population. But in the XI - XII centuries. the existing class antagonisms were mostly of a local nature; the forces of local authorities were quite enough to resolve them, and they did not require nationwide intervention. These conditions made large landowners - boyars-patrimonials almost completely economically and socially independent from the central government.
The local boyars did not see the need to share their income with the great Kyiv prince and actively supported the rulers of individual principalities in the struggle for economic and political independence.
Outwardly, the collapse of Kievan Rus looked like a division of the territory of Kievan Rus between various members of the ruined princely family. According to the established tradition, local thrones were occupied, as a rule, only by the descendants of the house of Rurik.
The process of advancing feudal fragmentation was objectively inevitable. He made it possible for the developing system of feudal relations to be more firmly established in Russia. From this point of view, one can speak of the historical progressivity of this stage of Russian history, within the framework of the development of the economy and culture.
Sources.
Chronicles remain the most important sources for the history of medieval Russia. From the end of the XII century. their circle is expanding considerably. With the development of individual lands and principalities, regional chronicles spread.
The largest body of sources is made up of act materials - letters written on a variety of occasions. Letters were granted, deposit, in-line, bill of sale, spiritual, truce, statutory, etc., depending on the purpose. With the development of the feudal-local system, the number of current clerical documentation (scribe, sentinel, bit, genealogical books, replies, petitions, memory, court lists) increases. Actual and office materials are valuable sources on the socio-economic history of Russia.
Reasons and essence
1. Reasons
Feudal fragmentation is a new form of state. political organization
From the second third of the 12th century, Russia began a period of feudal fragmentation that lasted until the end of the 15th century, through which all the countries of Europe and Asia passed. Feudal fragmentation as a new form of state political organization, which replaced the early feudal Kievan monarchy, corresponded to a developed feudal society.
1.1 Change of early feudal monarchy
It was not by chance that feudal republics developed within the framework of former tribal unions, whose ethnic and regional stability was supported by natural boundaries and cultural traditions.
1.2. Division of labor
As a result of the development of productive forces and the social division of labor, the old tribes. centers and new cities have become economic and political centers. With the "reigning" and "charming" of communal lands, peasants became involved in the system of feudal dependence. The old tribal nobility turned into zemstvo boyars and, together with other categories of feudal lords, formed corporations of landowners.
1.3. Strengthening the political power of local princes and boyars
Within the limits of small states-principalities, the feudal lords could effectively protect their interests, which were little considered in Kyiv. Selecting and securing suitable princes at their "tables", the local nobility forced them to abandon the view of the "tables" as temporary feeding for them.
1.4. The first strife
After the death of Vladimir Svyatoslavovich in 1015, a long war began between his numerous sons, who ruled over separate parts of Russia. The instigator of the strife was Svyatopolk the Accursed, who killed his brothers Boris and Gleb. In internecine wars, princes - brothers brought to Russia either the Pechenegs, or the Poles, or the mercenary detachments of the Varangians. In the end, the winner was Yaroslav the Wise, who divided Russia (along the Dnieper) with his brother Mstislav of Tmutarakan from 1024 to 1036, and then, after the death of Mstislav, became "autocratic".
1.5. Russia in the middle 11th century
After the death of Yaroslav the Wise in 1054, a significant number of sons, relatives and cousins of the Grand Duke ended up in Russia. Each of them had one or another "fatherland", his own domain, and each, to the best of his ability, sought to increase the domain or exchange it for a richer one. This created a tense situation in all princely centers and in Kyiv itself. Researchers sometimes call the time after the death of Yaroslav the time of feudal fragmentation, but this cannot be considered correct, since real feudal fragmentation occurs when individual lands crystallize, large cities grow up to head these lands, when each sovereign principality consolidates its own princely dynasty. All this appeared in Russia only after 1132, and in the second half of the 11th century. everything was changeable, fragile and unstable. Princely strife ruined the people and the squad, shook the Russian state, but did not introduce any new political form.
1.6. End strife 11th century
In the last quarter of the XI century. in the difficult conditions of an internal crisis and the constant threat of external danger from the Polovtsian khans, princely strife acquired the character of a national disaster. The Grand Duke's throne became the object of contention: Svyatoslav Yaroslavich expelled his older brother Izyaslav from Kyiv, "initiating the expulsion of the brothers."
The strife became especially terrible after the son of Svyatoslav Oleg entered into allied relations with the Polovtsy and repeatedly brought the Polovtsian hordes to Russia for a self-serving solution between princely quarrels.
Oleg's enemy was the young Vladimir Vsevolodovich Monomakh, who reigned in the border Pereslavl.
Monomakh managed to convene a princely congress in Lyubech in 1097, the task of which was to secure the "fatherland" for the princes, condemn the instigator of the strife Oleg and, if possible, eliminate future strife in order to resist the Polovtsy with united forces. However, the princes were powerless to establish order not only in the entire Russian land, but even within their princely circle of relatives and cousins and nephews. Immediately after the congress, a new strife broke out in Lyubech, which lasted for several years. The only force that, under those conditions, could really stop the rotation of the princes and the princely squabbles was the boyars - the main composition of the then young and progressive feudal class. Boyar program at the end of the 11th and beginning of the 12th centuries. consisted in limiting princely arbitrariness and excesses of princely officials, in eliminating strife and in the general defense of Russia from the Polovtsians. Coinciding in these points with the aspirations of the townspeople, this program reflected the interests of the whole people and was, of course, progressive.
In 1093, after the death of Vsevolod Yaroslavich, the people of Kiev invited the insignificant Turov prince Svyatopolk to the throne, but they miscalculated significantly, as he turned out to be a bad commander and a greedy ruler.
Svyatopolk died in 1113; his death was the signal for a widespread uprising in Kyiv. The people attacked the courts of princely stewards and usurers. The Kiev boyars, bypassing the princely seniority, chose Vladimir Monomakh as Grand Duke, who successfully reigned until his death in 1125. After him, the unity of Russia was still maintained under his son Mstislav (1125-1132), and then, according to the chronicler, Russian land" into separate independent principalities.
2. Essence
2.1. The weakening of the country on the eve of the Mongol-Tatar invasion.
The loss of the state unity of Russia weakened and divided its forces in the face of the growing threat of foreign aggression and, above all, the steppe nomads. All this predetermined the gradual decline of the Kyiv land from the 13th century. For some time, under Monomakh and Mstislav, Kyiv rose again. These princes were able to repulse the Polovtsian nomads.
2.2. The collapse of a single power
After the death of Mstislav, instead of a single state, about a dozen independent lands arose: Galicia, Chernigov, Smolensk, Novgorod and others.
Socio-economic development of Russia XII - XIII centuries
1. Agriculture
1.1. general characteristics
Plowed agriculture remained the basis of the economy in the Russian lands. The combination of agriculture with cattle breeding, rural crafts and ancillary home crafts determined the natural character of the peasant and feudal patrimonial economy, in which the production cycle of work was repeated annually. The connections of peasant and patrimonial farms with the market were consumer and irregular in nature and were not a necessary condition for simple agricultural reproduction.
The material and production basis of the feudal economy was the labor of dependent peasants and serfs and the food rent collected from the peasants.
1.2. Benefits of fiefdoms
The feudal lords continued to retain an organizing role in the development of agricultural production. In peasant farms, the development of productive forces was hampered by their parceling and the routine of technology inherited from great-grandfathers. A large estate had more opportunities for organizing a diversified arable and commercial economy, expanding arable land, introducing two- and three-field crop rotation systems, and acquiring more expensive and high-quality tools made by urban artisans. Finally, the desire of the feudally dependent peasants to keep for themselves (after paying the feudal rent) most of the surplus product they produced forced them to increase the profitability of their economy by intensifying labor, improving production skills and the production process itself.
Up to 40 types of rural agricultural and fishing equipment are known. The fallow system of crop rotation became widespread, increasing, in comparison with undercutting and fallow, the arable area and reducing the threat of a complete crop failure. In gardening, and then on arable land, fertilizing the soil with manure begins to enter into practice. However, the yield of the fields remained low - "one and a half", "one and a half", "one and a half", "one and three" in the average harvest years. In the XII-XIII centuries. the area of cultivated land is growing, especially as a result of increased colonization of new lands by enslaved peasants, who sought to break out of feudal dependence by leaving for "free" lands.
1.3. Feudal tenure
Feudal landownership continued to grow and develop mainly in the form of large princely, boyar and ecclesiastical estates. Information about the presence and development in the XI-XII centuries. conditional feudal landownership of the type of later widespread service landownership has not yet been discovered. Serving vassals, who made up the "courts" of princes (serving boyars, combatants, persons from the patrimonial administration), were given land for service on patrimonial law or feeding - the right to maintain cities or volosts and receive income from them.
1.4. Enslavement of peasants
The bulk of the peasants - community members still remained personally free and managed on state lands, the prince of which was considered the supreme owner (future "black" lands), paying feudal rent in the form of "tributes". The decisive role in the enslavement of communal peasants was played by direct violence against them by the feudal lords. The involvement of the communal peasants in personal feudal dependence was also achieved through their economic enslavement. The peasants, who were ruined for a number of reasons, became purchasers, ryadoviches, were pledged into serfs and included in the number of the master's servants. The servants lived in the courtyards of the feudal lords and in their patrimonial villages and included both full (“whitewashed”) serfs and various categories of dependent persons, whose legal status was close to that of the serf. The variety of terms applied to the rural population of that time ("people", "smerds", "outcasts", "orphans", "forgivers", "mortgages", "purchases", "ryadovichi", "servants") reflected the complexity of the process the formation of a class of feudally dependent peasants, the differences in the ways of drawing them into feudal dependence, and the degree of this dependence.
1.5. Exploitation of the peasants
The exploitation of dependent peasants was carried out mainly through the collection of food rent from them and, to a lesser extent, through working off in the master's economy. The correlation of the place and role of these rents in feudal farms depended on local economic conditions, on the degree of maturity of feudal relations. Continued to retain its importance in the feudal economy and the work of serfs, who performed household chores of the feudal lord, in the patrimonial craft, in the processing of then small areas of lordly plowing. At the same time, the number of serfs planted by feudal lords on the ground increased. The armed detachments of yard serfs made up the squads of the boyars.
1.6. Outcome.
The most important result of the development of the feudal economy in the XII-XIII centuries. was the crystallization of its main features as a subsistence economy based on the exploitation of personally dependent peasants, endowed with the means of production and leading their economy on allotment land.
2. City and craft in XII - XIII centuries
As a result of the further development of the social division of labor, the continued separation of craft from agriculture and the growth of trade and market relations, the number of cities and fortified settlements is rapidly growing, which by the middle of the 13th century. according to chronicle data, there were up to 300. From the rural craft, which was of an auxiliary seasonal nature, handicraft specialties stood out first of all, the technology and complex tools of which required professional skills and a significant investment of time, and the products could be used for barter. Peasants who mastered complex handicraft specialties could quickly and easily escape from feudal dependence by leaving (or fleeing) to the cities, since agriculture was not their only source of subsistence.
2.1. Formation of market relations
The development of Russian crafts on the eve of the Tatar-Mongol invasion was the basis for the formation of market relations, the creation of local market centers that connected the city with the rural district. The concentration of craftsmen - professionals in the cities contributed to the differentiation of handicraft production. In the XII-XIII centuries. there were already up to 60 handicraft specialties. Russian craftsmen achieved high perfection in the technology of metal processing, in welding, soldering and forging, in the manufacture of highly artistic; the finest casting and chasing products. The bulk of urban artisans worked to order, but some of their products went to the city market, with which the surrounding rural districts were connected. The most qualified masters of the largest craft centers, along with working to order, already worked for the market, becoming small commodity producers, whose products were in demand in Russia and foreign markets: in Byzantium, Poland, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Germany, the Baltic states, Central Asia, the North Caucasus, in the Polovtsian steppes. In a number of cities in these countries there were special courtyards and streets of Russian merchants who sold and exchanged the products of Russian artisans (swords, armor, jewelry, the famous "Russian castles", etc.). In turn, "yards" of foreign merchants appear in Russian cities. The expansion of external trade relations was reflected in the conclusion of trade agreements between the largest Russian commercial and industrial centers (Novgorod, Smolensk, Polotsk, etc.) with German and Baltic cities, which provided mutually beneficial conditions for trade.
2.2. Urban population
The influx of rural artisans, runaway peasants and serfs into the cities, the formation of trade and craft settlements under the walls of the "detintsy" qualitatively changed the social structure and appearance of Russian cities. Russian city in the XII-XIII centuries. was already a complex social organism in which all strata of feudal society were represented. The bulk of the urban population was made up of "black", "lesser" people - small merchants, artisans, apprentices, indentured "hiremen" and declassed elements who did not have a specific occupation ("wretched people") - the medieval lumpen proletariat. A significant group was the servants who lived in the courtyards of the feudal lords. The urban plebs were subjected to feudal exploitation in various forms (through usurious enslavement, direct and indirect taxes).
2.3. Associations
In large trade and craft cities, craft and merchant associations are created with elected elders at the head, with their own "treasury" and their patronal churches ("streets", "rows", "hundreds", "brotherhoods", "obchiny"). Craft associations were created on a territorial-professional basis, representing and defending the interests of the craft settlement in the economic and political life of the city. Merchant associations were formed along the lines of Western European merchant guilds. So in Kyiv there was an association of merchants - "Greeks" who traded in Byzantium, in Novgorod the most influential merchant association was the famous "Ivanovo hundred" merchants - waxers, which had its own charter, treasury and the patronal church of Ivan the Baptist on Opoki.
2.4. Trade and craft nobility
In terms of estates, the trade and craft elite stood significantly lower than the urban feudal nobility, who held in their hands the city government, the court, the leadership of the city militia, entangled the city plebs in usurious bondage, charged feudal rent from the artisan people and small merchants for the use of their yards and plots in vast areas. boyar estates. Social contradictions in the cities resulted in frequent uprisings of the urban poor, heretical movements, and fierce fights at veche meetings.
2.5. Veche meetings
The heyday of veche meetings in the XII-XIII centuries. associated with the increased role of cities and the urban population in the political life of the principalities. Outwardly, the veche meetings were a peculiar form of feudal "democracy", which, however, excluded the decisive participation in the management of the city plebs. Chronicle reports show that veche meetings were primarily meetings of the urban feudal nobility and the town elite, who used their democratic form to win over the urban plebs in the struggle for city liberties (primarily for the rights and privileges of the boyars and the trading elite) and for the decisive role in the political life of his city and principality. The place and role of veche meetings in the life of each city, the composition of their participants depended on the severity of social contradictions in cities, on the alignment of class and intra-class forces in them, on the development and political activity of the trade and craft population. In large cities (Kyiv, Pskov, Polotsk, etc.), veche meetings often turned into an arena of fierce social battles, ending in reprisals against the most hated by the townspeople usurers, boyars, and persons from the city and princely administration. During the uprisings, the veche meetings of the nobility were sometimes opposed to spontaneous veche meetings of the city people. While in the struggle of the local nobility with the princely power, none of the parties took a decisive advantage, until then both the boyars and the princes were forced to turn to the city plebs for support, to allow the latter to exert its influence through veche meetings on the political life of their city and principality . With the victory of one of these contending parties, the significance of veche meetings is sharply reduced (as, for example, in Novgorod at the beginning of the 15th century), or they are completely eliminated (as in Vladimir - the Suzdal principality from the end of the 12th century).
2.6. Outcome
In the political life of Russia during the period of feudal fragmentation, cities played a dual role. On the one hand, cities, as local political and economic centers, were a stronghold of regional separatism, decentralization aspirations on the part of specific princes and zemstvo boyar nobility. On the other hand, the qualitative shifts that took place in the country's economy as a result of the development of cities and urban crafts and trade (the first steps towards the transformation of crafts into small-scale production, the development of commodity-money relations and the establishment of market relations that went beyond the existing local markets) were are identical to the shifts that took place in Western European cities on the eve of the era of primitive accumulation. As a result, in Russia, as in the West, in the face of a numerically growing and economically growing trade and craft population, a political force developed that gravitated towards a strong grand ducal power, in the struggle with which the specific princes and boyar nobility made their way to overcome the state-political fragmentation of the country.
State-political system and management
1. The power of the prince
1.1. princely power
In the political system of the Russian lands and principalities, there were local features due to differences in the level and pace of development of the productive forces, feudal land ownership, and the maturity of feudal production relations. In some lands, the princely power, as a result of a stubborn struggle that continued with varying success, was able to subjugate the local nobility and strengthen itself. In the Novgorod land, on the contrary, a feudal republic was established, in which the princely power lost the role of the head of state and began to play a subordinate, mainly military service role.
With the triumph of feudal fragmentation, the all-Russian significance of the power of the Kievan great princes was gradually reduced to a nominal "seniority" among other princes. Linked to each other by a complex system of suzerainty and vassalage (due to the complex hierarchical structure of land ownership), the rulers and the feudal nobility of the principalities, with all their local independence, were forced to recognize the seniority of the strongest of their midst, who united their efforts to resolve issues that could not be resolved forces of one principality or affected the interests of a number of principalities.
Already from the second half of the XII century. the strongest principalities stand out, the rulers of which become "great", "oldest" in their lands, representing in them the top of the entire feudal hierarchy, the supreme head, without whom the vassals could not do, and in relation to which they were simultaneously in a state of continuous rebellion.
1.2. Political centers
Until the middle of the XII century. such a head in the feudal hierarchy on the scale of all Russia was the prince of Kyiv. From the second half of the XII century. his role passed to the local grand dukes, who, in the eyes of contemporaries, as the "oldest" princes, were responsible for the historical fate of Russia (the idea of \u200b\u200bthe ethnic-state unity of which continued to be preserved).
At the end of the XII - beginning of the XIII century. three main political centers were defined in Russia, each of which had a decisive influence on the political life in their neighboring lands and principalities: for North-Eastern and Western (and also to a large extent for North-Western and Southern) Russia - the Vladimir-Suzdal Principality ; for Southern and South-Western Russia - the Galicia-Volyn principality; for North-Western Russia - the Novgorod feudal republic.
1.3. All-Russian congresses
In the conditions of feudal fragmentation, the role of all-Russian and land congresses (snems) of princes and vassals sharply increased, at which questions between princely relations were considered and appropriate agreements were concluded, issues of organizing the fight against the Polovtsy and holding other joint events were discussed. But the attempts of the princes by convening such congresses to mitigate the most negative consequences of the loss of the state unity of Russia, to connect their local interests with the problems of the all-Russian (or all-land) scale that confronted them, ultimately failed because of the ongoing strife between them.
2. Vassals and overlords
2.1. Scheme of government in petty principalities
The princes had all the rights of sovereign sovereigns. The small size of the principalities allowed them to personally delve into all matters of administration and control their agents, to judge in their own court or during the detours of their possessions. Along with the norms of Russkaya Pravda that continued to operate, the lands and principalities began to develop their own legal norms, which were reflected in between princely agreements and in trade agreements between Russian cities and foreign cities. The collections of church law contained norms relating to family, marriage and other aspects of the life of feudal society, referred to the jurisdiction of the church court. The composition of the princely and patrimonial administration, which together constituted the apparatus of government in the principalities, includes military, administrative, financial, judicial, economic and other agents (voivods, governors, posadniks, volostels, thousandths, courtiers, treasurers, printers, equestrians, virniki, tiuns and etc.). Their material support was carried out by transferring to them part of the income from management (feeding) or by granting land to the patrimony.
2.2. Boyars
One of the most important duties of the vassals was to provide their overlord with advice, the duty to think with him "about the land system and about the army." This advisory body under the prince (the boyar "duma") did not have a legally formalized status, its convocation and the composition of the Duma members, as well as the range of issues that were discussed, depended on the prince. The recommendations of the Duma members for the prince were considered optional, but only a few princes decided to ignore them or act contrary to the advice of their powerful vassals. Under weak princes, power was actually concentrated in the hands of the boyars - Duma members.
2.3. The role of the clergy in the administration of the principality
In addition to the boyars and persons from the court administration, representatives of the higher clergy took part in the princely duma. With the growth of church landownership, the clergy turned into a powerful, with its own complex hierarchical ladder, estate corporation of feudal lords - landowners. Relying on its spiritual authority, the growing economic power and the advantage that it was given by the preservation of estate and organizational unity in the conditions of fragmented Russia, the church begins to claim the role of the supreme arbiter in between princely relations, actively intervene in the political struggle and princely strife.
Russian lands and principalities in XII - first half XIII centuries.
1. Vladimir-Suzdal principality
Until the middle of the 11th century, the Rostov-Suzdal land was ruled by posadniks sent from Kyiv. Her "reigning" began after she went to Vsevolod Pereslavlsky and was assigned to his descendants as a tribal "volost".
1.1. Expanding the boundaries
Vladimir-Suzdal land occupied the interfluve of the Oka and Volga. The formation of its territory took place somewhat later than other "regions". In the first half of the 12th century, a vast area in the southwest, inhabited by the Vyatichi, with a center in Moscow, grows into this land. In the 40s and 60s of the 12th century, the Rostov-Suzdal tribute penetrated into the wilderness, competing with Novgorod in the Vazhsky region.
Southeastward expansion
By the 1970s, the territory expanded in a southeasterly direction from the Lower Klyazma to the Trans-Volga region. Gorodets grew on the banks of the Volga, and in the first half of the 13th century, Nizhny Novgorod was formed at the mouth of the Oka. At the end of the XII-beginning of the XIII century, the territory along the Upper Volga region joins the Rostov-Suzdal territory. Finally, the tribute of this land penetrated the places rich in salt mining along the Solonitsa and Great Salt, and during the second half of the 12th century it covered the Kostroma region and places along the Galician Lake.
The appearance of Ustyug
By the beginning of the 13th century, at the mouth of the South, Ustyug grew on the dry land as the extreme outpost in the northeast from the side of the Rostov possessions.
Ryazan Murom
It should be noted that under the influence of the Suzdal princes fell Ryazan and Murom, which had previously stretched to Chernigov.
1.2. Cities
Almost all the main cities of this land (Vladimir, Dmitrov, Galich, Starodub and others) arose in the XII-XIII centuries. They were built by the Suzdal princes on the borders and within the principality as stronghold fortifications and administrative centers and built up with trade and craft settlements, the population of which was actively involved in political life.
1.3. Protecting cities from enemies.
The name "Suzdal" is difficult to explain. Suzdal, or Suzdal is the city of Suzda, but even in this case the root of the name remains without explanation. Suzdal owes its growth and importance to the fertile field.
Suzdal.
The Suzdal Kremlin is located on the Kamenka River, which flows into the Nerl. The remains of the rampart and the moat are still preserved. The earthen Kremlin wall with a number of renovations that have survived to our time arose in the 11th-12th centuries.
Vladimir.
The location of the city resembles the location of Kyiv. Vladimir stands on the high bank of the Klyazma. The hills drop steeply to the river and create impregnable heights on which the original castle was built. Such dimensions of the fortification did not satisfy Bogolyubsky when he moved the capital to Vladimir. The territory at that time was closed by the Golden Gate, built in 1164.
1.4. Indigenous people
The territory of the region in the upper reaches of the Oka and Volga has long been inhabited by Slavic tribes. In addition to them, the indigenous population was Merya, Muroma, Ves, Mordovians, and tribes of Turkic origin were located on the Volga. These tribes by the XII century were in the stage of decomposition of the tribal system, they had a prosperous elite. The Rostov-Suzdal princes seized these lands and imposed tribute on them.
1.5. Conditions for the development of trade, crafts, trade, agriculture, cattle breeding
In the XII-XIII centuries, the Rostov-Suzdal land experienced an economic and political upsurge. Kievans called this region Zalesky (located behind impenetrable forests). Along the Klyazma River there is a grain-growing plain, there were many animals in the forests, and the rivers abounded with fish. Here there were favorable conditions for the development of various crafts, rural and forestry crafts, cattle breeding, trade, especially when the Volga basin turned into the main artery in Russia.
1.6. Princely and boyar land ownership
In accelerating the economic and political rise, the increase in the population of the region at the expense of the inhabitants of the southern Russian lands, who fled from the Polovtsian raids, was of great importance. In the XI-XII centuries, a large princely and boyar land ownership was formed and strengthened here, absorbing communal lands.
1.7. Peculiarities
Here, later than in other parts of Russia, feudal relations began to develop. By the time of the collapse of the Old Russian state, a strong local boyars had not yet formed in this region, capable of resisting the growing princely power. The princes managed to create such a large domain that other Russian princes could envy. They distributed their vast land holdings to combatants and servants. Part of the land was distributed to the church.
1.8. Political structure
Until the middle of the 11th century, the Rostov-Suzdal land was ruled by posadniks sent from Kyiv. Her "reign" began when she went to Vsevolod Pereslavl and was assigned to his descendants as a tribal volost.
early feudal monarchy.
In the XII-XIII centuries, the Vladimir-Suzdal land was an early feudal monarchy. During this period, the Vladimir princes began to extend their power to the east, to the lands of the Kama Bulgarians and Mordovians.
The relationship between the Grand Duke and specific princes.
In the XIII-XIV centuries, the relationship between the Grand Duke and the specific princes was regulated on the basis of suzerainty-vassalage over time, the independence of the specific princes increased and they gradually turned into heads of feudal estates independent of the Grand Duke.
1.9. major political events.
In the early 30s of the XII century, during the reign of Dolgoruky, the Rostov-Suzdal land gained independence. He seized a large number of surrounding lands, seizing the estates from large local boyars, and moved the capital from Rostov to Suzdal. Under him, a number of large cities appeared (Moscow, Dmitrov). The military-political activity of Yuri, who intervened in all princely strife, made him one of the central figures in the political life of Russia in the 12th century. He successfully fought with the Volga-Kama Bulgarians, subjugated Novgorod to his power, captured Kyiv. Having reconciled with Izyaslav Davydovich, Yuri entered Kyiv. He placed his sons near him: Andrei - in Vyshgorod, Boris - in Pereslavl, Vasilko - in Porosye. However, the enmity and quarrels of relatives continued, and Yuri participated in them, attacked his nephews, causing dissatisfaction with his behavior. While still a prince of Rostov, Yuri received the nickname Dolgoruky for the constant encroachment on foreign lands: he subjugated Murom, Ryazan, seized lands along the banks of the Volga, conquered Volga Bulgaria. Strengthening his principality, Yuryev-Polsky, Dmitrov, Zvenigorod, Pereslavl-Zalessky built fortresses along its borders. It was he who built the city of Gorodets on the Volga, where his son Mikhail later mysteriously died, as well as his great-grandson Alexander Nevsky, who was returning from the Golden Horde. Yuri Dolgoruky died on May 10, 1157. His death was preceded by a feast at Petrila's Servant, after which Yuri fell ill, and died five days later. There is speculation that he was poisoned. Yuri Dolgorukov was buried on the territory of the Kiev Caves Monastery.
Foundation of Moscow.
The foundation of Moscow is connected with the name of Yuri Dolgoruky. Previously, it was an ordinary village of Kuchkovo with the estate of the noble boyar Stepan Ivanovich Kuchka. Here, on the high bank of the Borovitsky Hill, on April 4, 1147, Yu.D., being the prince of Rostov-Suzdal, met with Prince Svyatoslav Olgovich (great-grandson of Yaroslav the Wise) in order to conclude an alliance. This place on the green cape, at the confluence of two rivers - the Moscow and the Neglinnaya - attracted them. The boyar Kuchka then refused to submit to Yuri, as he was an imperious descendant of the tribal princes - the Vyatichi. Yuri ordered the execution of the boyar, and annexed his possessions to his lands. Kuchka's daughter Julitta married his son Andrey.
At the direction of Yu.D. the village of Kuchkovo began to be called Moscow (after the Moscow River). Yuri had been hatching plans for building a city on this site for a long time and managed to partially implement his plans, to settle in the interfluve of the Volga, Oka and Moscow. In 1156 Yu.D. "He founded the city of Moscow at the mouth of the Neglinnaya above the Yauza River." During most of the 13th century there was no permanent reign in Moscow. Only in the generation of great-grandchildren of Vsevolod III, after the death of Alexander Nevsky, his youngest and young son Daniel appeared in Moscow. He became the ancestor of the Moscow princely house.
Yuri's fight I.
After the death of his father, Andrei Bogolyubsky did not covet the throne of Kyiv. But in 1169 he sent his army to Kyiv, where Mstislav II reigned. After the pogrom, Bogolyubsky gave the principality of Kiev to his brother Gleb. Kyiv has ceased to be "the oldest proud of Russia."
Andrei Bogolyubsky (1157-1174). The beginning of the struggle of the Suzdal princes
The reign of Bogolyubsky is associated with the beginning of the struggle of the Suzdal princes for the political hegemony of their principality over the rest of the lands. His main goal was to humiliate the importance of Kyiv, to transfer eldership to Vladimir. Kyiv was taken on March 12, 1169.
Failure of Andrey's attempts.
The attempts of Andrei, who claimed the title of prince of all Russia, to subjugate Novgorod and force other princes to recognize his supremacy did not bring success. But these attempts reflected the trend of restoring the political unity of the country.
Revival of Monomakh traditions
With the reign of Bogolyubsky, the revival of the traditions of the power policy of Monomakh is connected. The power-hungry prince expelled the brothers and those boyars who did not obey him enough, ruled autocratically in their land, burdened the people with exactions.
Transfer of the capital
To be even more independent from the boyars, Andrei moved the capital from Rostov to Vladimir-on-Klyazma, where there was a significant trade and craft settlement. He removed from Kyiv the main shrine - the Byzantine icon of the Mother of God and approved a new great reign in Vladimir.
Andrei's act was an event of great importance and an extraordinary character, a turning point, from which the history of Russia took on a new order. Prior to that, a large princely family ruled in Russia, the eldest of which was called the Grand Duke, and he sat in Kyiv. Even when Kievan Rus collapsed in the 40s. XII century., Kyiv remained the main city of Russia.
And then a prince was found who preferred the glorious Kyiv to a poor city in the north that had just begun to be rebuilt - Vladimir Klyazmensky. It was to this city, being the prince of Vladimir-Suzdal, that Andrey transferred in 1157 the center of his reign from Suzdal. And although Kyiv formally remained the oldest city, the most powerful prince now lived not in Kyiv, but in distant Vladimir, having Kyiv, he gave it to the eldest prince after himself.
Thus, Kyiv turned out to be subordinate to Vladimir. An opportunity arose and conditions were created for the separation of Northern Russia from Southern Russia. Centers stand out: Vladimir, Suzdal, Rostov, Tver, Kostroma, Yaroslavl, Murom, Ryazan.
Not far from Vladimir, Andrei built a beautiful temple, a white-stone palace in the village of Bogolyubovo, and began to live in it. In the center of the village he built a church in honor of the birth of Mary, the temple was richly decorated with gold and expensive stones. By order of Andrei, the Golden Gates were built in Vladimir, the city itself expanded and beautified.
The subject of Andrey's special concern was to increase the role of the Vladimir-Suzdal principality in all-Russian politics and its significant isolation. This was facilitated by the transformation of the Mother of God of Vladimir into the heavenly patroness of the principality. The establishment of the Bogorodnaya cult as the main one in Vladimir-Suzdal Rus, as it were, opposed it to the Kyiv and Novgorod lands, where St. Sophia was the main cult. In addition, Andrei tried to find his own saint in the Vladimir-Suzdal land - Bishop Leonty of Rostov, although at that time it was not possible to achieve his canonization. Andrey tried to establish in Vladimir a separate metropolis separate from Kyiv, subordinate directly to Constantinople. A candidate for the metropolitan throne has already been found in the person of the local bishop Fyodor. The creation of two metropolitan sees in Russia would mean a new step along the path of feudal fragmentation. However, the Patriarch of Constantinople did not give consent to this, only allowed the transfer of the episcopal throne from old Rostov to Vladimir.
Andrei's foreign policy caused discontent among many boyars. He drove out the old, well-born boyars and surrounded himself with new, service people. He forbade the boyars to participate in a number of events, began to behave imperiously and extremely strictly. Dissatisfied boyars carried out a conspiracy against him, in which his wife Julitta also participated. The plot did not achieve its goal, and Andrei executed one of Ulita's relatives, Kuchkovych, for his part in it. The brother of the executed Yakim, together with his son-in-law and servants, decided to kill Prince Andrei. At night, after getting drunk, they (there were 20 of them, led by Peter, Kuchka's son-in-law) broke open the doors of Andrey's bedroom. Together with Andrei, his servant Procopius was killed. Then they robbed the church chambers.
The formation of the Russian state with a new name, a new territorial division, a new political center - Vladimir is connected with the activities of Andrei Bogolyubsky.
1.10. Rise of the Principality. Vsevolod Yurievich Big Nest (1176-1212)
The reign of Vsevolod-III ended the two-year strife unleashed after the murder of Andrei by the boyars in the reign of Vsevolod-III, the principality reached its peak. Novgorod the Great was under his control. The Muromo-Ryazan land was in constant dependence. Vsevolod skillfully combined the power of arms with skillful politics.
Having not yet waited for reliable confirmation of Mikhail's death, the Rostovites sent Prince Mstislav Rostislavich (Yury Dolgoruky's grandson) to Novgorod to say: "Come the prince to us: God took Mikhail on the Volga in Gorodets, and we want you, we don't want another." He quickly gathered a squad and went to Vladimir. However, here they already kissed the cross of Vsevolod Yuryevich and his children. Having learned about the intentions of his nephew, Vsevolod wanted to settle all the princely strife amicably, but Mstislav's supporters did not agree. Then on the Yuryevsky field, across the river Kzoya, a battle took place, in which the Vladimirites won, and Mstislav fled to Novgorod. But the struggle of Vsevolod and his nephews did not stop there, there were many strife, quarrels, skirmishes, military conflicts. Vsevolod knew how to hold power and win. The northern prince was strong and actively influenced the lands of Southern Russia. He subjugated Kyiv, Ryazan, Chernigov, Novgorod and became the autocrat of all Russia.
Under Vsevolod, the northern lands began to strengthen. North-Eastern Russia reached its peak, it strengthened, grew, internally strengthened thanks to the support of cities and the nobility, and became one of the largest feudal states in Europe.
Shortly before his death, Vsevolod III wanted to give seniority to his eldest son Konstantin, and put Yuri in Rostov. But Konstantin was dissatisfied, he wanted to take both Vladimir and Rostov for himself. Then the father, after consulting with Bishop John, handed over seniority to his youngest son, Yuri. The indigenous custom was violated, which led to strife and disagreements.
Vsevolod died in 1212. After him, North-Eastern Russia will begin to disintegrate into many specific, independent principalities: Vladimir, which included Suzdal, Pereyaslavl with a center in Pereyaslavl - Zalessky with Tver, Dmitrov, Moscow, Yaroslavl, Rostov, Uglitsky, Yuryevsky, Murom. However, the title of Grand Duke for many years still remained with Vladimir.
1.11. Decay.
After the death of Vsevolod III, a struggle for power broke out between his numerous sons, all this led to a weakening of the princely power and was an expression of the development of the process of feudal fragmentation within the principality itself. But before the invasion of the Mongols, it remained the strongest, retaining political unity.
2. Galicia-Volyn principality
2.1. Borders
In the second half of the 11th-12th centuries, a "regional" territory was formed along the upper part of the Dniester. In the southeast, along the Dniester, it extended to Ushitsa. In the southwestern direction, the Galician territory captured the upper reaches of the Prut. In the interfluve of the Prut and the Dniester lay Kuchelmin.
Galician land
The territory itself was called "Galician" land in the early 40s of the XII century. The volosts of Galicia and Przemyslskaya united in the hands of the Galician prince.
2.2. Cities
There were more cities in this principality than in others. The main city was Vladimir, and Galicia-Galic. Part of the Galician land along the western Bug was called the Cherven cities. Here, as elsewhere, civil strife took place. The largest cities were: Holm, Przemysl, Terebovol.
2.3. Population.
A significant part of the inhabitants of these cities were artisans and merchants.
2.4. trade routes
The trade route from the Baltic to the Black Sea passed through this land, as well as overland trade routes from Russia to the countries of central Europe. The dependence of the Dniester-Danube lowlands on Galich allowed him to control the European navigable trade route along the Danube.
2.5. Conditions for the development of agriculture, pastoralism, feudal relations, crafts
The natural conditions of the principality favored the development of agriculture in the river valleys. The mild climate, numerous forests and rivers, interspersed with steppe spaces, created favorable conditions for the development of cattle breeding and various crafts. The craft has reached a high level. Its separation from agriculture contributed to the growth of cities. Feudal relations developed early. The communal lands were expropriated by the feudal nobility.
One of the characteristic features of the development of feudal relations was the emergence of an influential elite among the feudal lords. Large boyars concentrated vast lands in their hands.
2.6. Political life
Boyar landownership was not inferior to the princely domain in terms of economic power.
Unification of small principalities in 1141. Yaroslav Osmomysl (1153-1178)
Until the middle of the XII century, the Galician land was divided into several small principalities, which in 1141 were united by Przemysl prince Vladimir Volodarevich, who transferred the capital to Galich.
The rise of the Galician principality began in the 12th century under Osmomysl. He highly raised the prestige of his principality and successfully defended all-Russian interests in relations with Byzantium. The author ("The Tale of Igor's Campaign") dedicated pathetic lines to the military might of Yaroslav. Yaroslav Osmomysl was born in the 1930s. XII century., He is the son of Prince Vladimir Volodarevich. In 1150 he married the daughter of Yuri Dolgoruky Olga. He fought against the rebellious Galician boyars, with the Kyiv princes Izyaslav Mstislavich, in 1158 - 1161 - with Izyaslav Davydovich. Yaroslav strengthened friendly relations with the Hungarian king, Polish princes, etc. The nickname "Osmomysl" means wise, having eight meanings, minds.
Volyn land is a ancestral home.
In the middle of the 12th century, this land became isolated from Kyiv, being assigned as a family homeland to the descendants of the Kyiv prince Izyaslav Mstislavovich. In Volhynia, a large princely domain was formed early.
Special legal arrangement
In fact, the transfer of the princely domain by inheritance was accompanied by a special legal registration, expressed in the spelling of "row". Volyn boyars, former princely combatants, settled on the ground. The princes grant them villages and volosts, which they turn into estates.
Unification of Volyn and Galician lands (1199).
The Volyn principality was the center of the lands of Western Russia. The Galician boyars decided to unite with him. This was done to get rid of Prince Vladimir, who was undesirable by him. Prince Roman initiated the unification of all the lands of Western Russia into one principality. The union succeeded in 1199.
The reign of Roman Mstislavich (1170-1205).
His reign was marked by the strengthening of the position of the Galicia-Volyn land, success in the fight against the Polovtsy. Throughout his reign, he fought against the autocracy of the boyars. After he occupied Kyiv in 1203, all of southern Russia was under his rule. Under Roman, the principality was strengthened militarily.
Prince of Novgorod - from 1168 to 1169 Prince of Vladimir-Volyn - from 1170 to 1205, from 1199 - Galitsky, was the son of the Grand Duke of Kyiv Mstislav Izyaslavich. He led a successful struggle against the boyars and church nobility for the strengthening of princely power. Owning the united Galicia-Volyn principality and extending his power to the Kiev region, R. M. became one of the strongest princes in Russia. Byzantium, Hungary, Poland reckoned with him, and Pope Innocent III suggested R.M. the royal crown, subject to the adoption of Catholicism, but was refused. In order to strengthen his influence on Polish affairs and advance into Saxony, R.M. intervened in the struggle of the Polish princes, but in 1205 he fell into an ambush organized by the Poles at Zavikhost on the Vistula, and was killed.
Consequences of Roman's death
After the death of Roman in 1205 in Poland, the political unity of Southwestern Russia was lost. The Galician boyars actually ruled the Principality. Against the boyar rebellions, which were used by neighboring foreign states for their aggressive purposes, the Kyiv prince with the Polovtsy spoke out.
The collusion of the boyars with the Hungarian and Polish feudal lords
It was a period of civil strife, during which Poland and Hungary tried to divide Galicia and Volhynia among themselves. The boyars entered into an agreement with the Polish and Hungarian feudal lords, who managed to seize the Galician land and part of Volhynia. During this period, a major boyar Volodyslav Korliyama became the head of power in Galich. In 1214, the Hungarian king Andrei II and the Polish prince Lemko, took advantage of the weakening of the principality, concluded an agreement on its division. Hungary captured Galich, and Poland captured the Przemysl volost and the northwestern part of Volhynia.
Rebellion against the invaders
The population of Galicia-Volyn Rus rebelled against the invaders and, with the help of the troops of neighboring principalities, expelled them.
2.7. The basis for the restoration of princely power.
In the 20s of the 13th century, a struggle began in this principality for liberation from the oppression of the Polish and Hungarian invaders. In 1215,1219,1220-1221 massive popular uprisings broke out against the enslavers. Their defeat and exile served as the basis for the restoration and strengthening of the position of princely power.
2.8. Daniil Romanovich's statement
Daniil Romanovich Galitsky (1201 - 1264), Prince of Galicia and Volhynia, son of Prince Roman Mstislavich. In 1211 he was elevated by the boyars to reign in Galich, but in 1212 he was expelled. In 1221 he began to reign in Volyn and in 1229 completed the unification of the Volyn lands. In 1223 he participated in the battle on the river. Kalka against the Mongol-Tatars, in 1237 - against the Teutonic Order. Only in 1238 Daniil Romanovich managed to establish himself in Galich. In a stubborn struggle against the self-will of the boyars, he restored his rights to inherit the princely table. Daniel was the first of the princes to put before all the princes of Russia and Western European countries the question of uniting military forces to fight the Mongol-Tatar yoke. Leading a stubborn struggle against princely strife and the dominance of the boyars and spiritual feudal lords, D.R. relied on small service people and the urban population. He promoted the development of cities, attracting artisans and merchants there.
Under him, Kholm, Lvov, Ugorevsk, Danilov were built, Dorogochin was renovated. D.R. moved the capital of the Galician-Volyn principality from the city of Galich to the city of Kholm. After the invasion of the Mongol-Tatar conquerors into South-Western Russia (1240) and the establishment of dependence on the Tatars, D.R. took energetic measures to prevent new invasions, as well as against the intensified aggression of the Hungarian and Polish feudal lords and Galician boyars, which ended the almost 40-year struggle for the restoration of Galicia-Volyn Rus. D.R. intervened in the war for the Austrian ducal throne and in the early 50s. achieved recognition of the right to it for his son Roman.
Coronation.
In 1253 he was crowned, but did not accept Catholicism, he did not receive real support from Rome to fight the Tatars. After breaking off relations with the Pope, Daniel was called the King of Galicia.
3. Novgorod feudal republic
3.1. Borders.
The borders of the Novgorod region in the south began to be determined in the second half of the XI century. Novgorod "region" covers the upper reaches of the Velikaya River and the upper reaches of the Lovat River. If by the first half of the 7th century Novgorod managed to spread its tribute quite far to the southeast, to the territory inhabited by some non-Novgorodians, then these successes were explained by the fact that representatives of the Novgorod public authorities came here earlier than Rostov-Suzdal. In the south, the distribution limit was set by the Smolensk and Polotsk tribute; successes in the southwest are due to the capture of the upper Lovat. The territorial increase in the eastern direction did not go directly to the east from Novgorod and Ladoga, but through Zaonezhye.
3.2. Pyatina: Obonezhskaya, Votskaya, Derevskaya, Shelonskaya, Bezhetskaya
The lands between Ilmen and Lake Peipus and along the banks of the Volkhov, Mologa, Lovat and Msta rivers were geographically and geographically divided into five patches. To the north-west from Novgorod, the Votskaya pyatina extended towards the Gulf of Finland; to the northeast, to the right of the Volkhov, the Obonezhskaya pyatina went to the White Sea; to the southeast, between the rivers Mstoyu and Lovat, stretched Derevskaya pyatina; to the south-west along the Shelon River - Shelonskaya; Bezhetskaya followed the Obonezhskaya and Derevskaya pyatinas. A feature of the five-point division was that all the fives, except for Bezhetskaya, began right at Novgorod itself and ran in all directions in the form of expanding radical stripes.
3.3. Hundreds and graveyards
The lands of the Novgorod land were administratively divided into hundreds and graveyards. The administrative structure of the city determined the structure of the veche organs. Novgorod, as it were, absorbed the entire urban population in an area with a radius of 200 km. Other cities, with the exception of Pskov, could never achieve independence.
3.4. Suburbs: Ladoga, Torzhok, Staraya Rusa, Velikie Luki, Pskov - Population, social system.
Ladoga stood not far from the depression of the Volkhov River into Lake Ladoga. Its great importance explains the participation of Ladoga residents in solving important political issues. In terms of trade, Ladoga played the role of a transit point. Another suburb is Torzhok, or New Torg. This city occupied a central and advantageous position. Apparently, this was the point where Novgorod merchants met with merchants from Vladimir-Suzdal Rus. There was a fortified castle in Torzhok that could withstand a long siege. Staraya Rusa represented a fairly significant settlement, concentrated near the fortress. From the very beginning of its existence, this city was not so much of commercial importance as of industrial importance, since in this area there were rich salt pans that have been developed since ancient times. The southernmost suburb was Velikiye Luki. Of all the Novgorod suburbs, Pskov was of the greatest importance. The geographical position contributed to its development as a major trade and craft center. The population of Pskov is told about the death of 600 men in the unsuccessful battle of Izborsk / Pskov Chronicle, p. 13 /. The significance of Pskov is emphasized by the attempts of the Pskovites to secede from Novgorod in 1136-37, when the prince of Novgorod Vsevolod Mstislavovich fled to it. As a result of the development of veche life in the XIV-XV centuries. The social system here received a complete development towards the formation of a boyar republic, whose power extended to the entire land adjacent to Pskov.
3.5. Population.
Despite its size, Novgorod land was distinguished by a low level of population density. Rybakov points out that the basis of the economy here was agriculture and crafts, although in Novgorod the trade and craft population predominated. /B.A. Rybakov "History of the USSR", /.
3.6. Conditions for the development of fishing, trade, handicrafts, iron ore mining.
Novgorod land, due to unfavorable soil and climatic conditions, was not very fertile, so agriculture could not meet the needs of the population. Novgorodians had to import bread from other principalities. But the geographical position favored the development of fishing, crafts, and trade. Novgorod was one of the largest shopping centers in Eastern Europe. The boyars actually monopolized the trade in furs, which they received from Pomorye, Podvinya. In a number of areas, peasants were engaged in the extraction of iron ore and salt.
3.7. Feature of socio-economic development
All this explains the peculiarity of the socio-economic development of Novgorod: a significantly higher development of handicrafts and trade compared to other principalities.
3.8. Veche - the highest body of the state. authorities. Composition, functions.
Veche system in Novgorod was a kind of feudal "democracy". /B.A.Rybakov "History of the USSR" p.101/.
Veche had an incomparably greater power. The reason for this was the important role played by the trade and craft population and the desire of the powerful boyars to prevent princely power.
Veche, being the supreme body of power, carried out a wide variety of functions. He had all the power in the field of legislation, it decided all the fundamental issues of foreign and domestic policy: he elected or expelled the prince, made decisions on questions about the war, was in charge of minting coins, etc. In cases of state and official crimes, the veche also acted as the highest judicial authority.
Veche meetings.
All adult residents could participate in veche meetings, excluding women and serfs. Veche was convened by the ringing of a bell in the Yaroslavl courtyard or Sophia Square. The veche had its own office and archive, and the veche press was considered state.
Positions held
The first place among elected officials was occupied by the bishop, who received the rank of archbishop in 1165. The ruling elite always listened to his voice. At the disposal of the posadnik and the thousandth was a whole staff of subordinates, with the help of which they carried out administration and court. They announced the decision of the veche, informed the court about the commission of a crime, summoned them to court, conducted a search, and so on.
The lowest level of organization
Rybakov in his book notes that the lowest level of organization and management in Novgorod was the association of neighbors - "convicted" with elected elders at the head. Five urban districts - "ends" formed self-governing territorial-administrative and political units, which also had special Konchan lands in collective feudal ownership. At the ends, their veche gathered, electing the Konchan elders.
Boyar and church land tenure
The boyars were an elite stratum. The income of the boyars was formed from land estates, especially large ones in the north of Novgorod. Features of land ownership consisted in the underdevelopment of vassalage, and the boyars acted as the unconditional owner of the land. The boyars could determine the legal fate of their lands /donate, change, sell/ in conditions of high marketability of the economy, hence another feature follows: the relations of the boyars with their own dependent population were based on relations of economic dependence. Church landownership developed somewhat later than the boyars. Much of the land was owned by the church. As a result, there were no princely land holdings here. The princely domain did not develop here.
The specifics of the position of the princes in Novgorod.
The specifics of the position of the princes sent from Kyiv as vicegerent princes ruled out the possibility of Novgorod becoming a principality. From the end of the 11th century, when, according to Tikhomirov, the struggle for city liberties began, the political leaders began to actively fight for "pleasing princes." Sometimes a kind of "dual power" was even established: "prince-posadnik".
Princes' nominations
The role of princes was noticeably limited in the 13th century. Agreements were concluded with the princes, which provided for their duties and rights, and the veche finally approved the candidacy. Previously, it was discussed at a meeting of the boyar council. The three oldest treaty letters with the Grand Duke Yaroslav date back to 1264-1270.
3.9. Craft and merchant associations.
The development of trade and crafts requires unification in times of feudal fragmentation. An ancient merchant association was the Ivan Sto, which arose at the Church of Ivan the Baptist on Opoki in Novgorod. At the head were elected elders. Ivanskoye hundred had the character of a closed merchant corporation. The charter of this association was one of the oldest charters of the Medieval Guild. From the beginning of its inception, the Ivan Sto was a typical merchant guild in the definition given by Doren: “Merchant guilds are all those strong commodity organizations in which merchants unite primarily to protect their goals; in them, the purpose of the association is comradely regulation and encouragement trade, ... a single person remains an independent merchant and conducts business, as before, at his own expense. /A.Doren,OPCIT,s44/. Masters of one specialty lived and worked in certain places. Some benefits regarding the concentration of artisans made it possible to make observations on worship crosses in Novgorod. Stone and wooden worship crosses with images were common here. The double reference to the people leads us to the place where the crosses were made. Yaroslav's charter mentions hundreds as certain organizations. But they, unlike the ends of the streets, are not confined to a certain territory. It is natural to assume that hundreds of statutes are some kind of organizations associated with trade or craft. But besides a hundred, "rows" are mentioned in the 15th century. There is an opinion that Ryadovich was equated with a merchant. Medieval trade was usually combined with handicrafts, so the organization of the rank and file was at the same time an organization of artisans.
3.10. Colonization
I want to note right away that one should not identify the process of spreading state power in the north and the process of colonization, although in some cases both processes could coincide. It remains completely unclear about the non-Slavic elements of the population of the Southern and Western Dvina. This is a more difficult issue than the settlement of Pomorie and Onega region. Academician Platonov does not deny the priority of the peasant colonization of the Dvina region. a strong network of peasant worlds covered the Northern Dvina. They provided much valuable material for researchers in the social forms of folk life. /I mean the works of A.Ya.Efimenko, M.Ostrovskaya, M.M.Bogoslavsky/. Klyuchevsky, on the other hand, put forward the idea of a connection between peasant and monastic colonization. / V.O. Klyuchevsky, Course of Russian history, part II, vol. II, M., 1957, p. The capture by the boyars and monasteries of the lands of Obonezhye, Belomorye, Podvinya was accompanied by a sharp struggle between the former landowners and the new owners. Collisions most often occurred because of fish traps. / Diplomas VN and P, No. 290. /
Refusal to accept Svyatopolk (1102)
Since the end of the 11th century, the Novgorod authorities predetermined the candidacies of the princes sent from Kyiv. The main task of the sent princes was armed protection and organization of defense. So, in 1102, the boyars refused to accept the son of Prince Svyatopolk.
Expulsion of Vsevolod Mstislavovich (1136)
Since 1015, when Novgorod refused to pay tribute to Kyiv, the struggle of Novgorod for political independence from the Kyiv principality began. In the 12th century, when the importance of Veliky Novgorod as a major trade and craft center increased, strong local boyars, taking advantage of the actions of the trade and craft population, first achieved the right to choose the closest assistant to the prince-posadnik from the Novgorod boyars at the veche (1126), and then, after a major uprising of smerds and the lower classes of the urban population against princely power in 1136, the right to choose a prince. After that, Prince Vsevolod was expelled from the city, and the princely administration was replaced by an elected one. So Veliky Novgorod became a feudal republic.
3.11. Political system: contradictions, the position of the prince.
VO Klyuchevsky notes several contradictions in the political life of Novgorod. The first of these was the disagreement between the political system and the social one. Another was in relation to Novgorod with the princes. The city needed the prince for external defense and maintenance of internal order, sometimes it was ready to keep him by force, but at the same time treated him with extreme distrust, drove him away from himself when he was dissatisfied with him. These contradictions caused an unusual movement in the political life of the city. As the political system here acquired an increasingly pronounced boyar-oligarchic character, the rights of the prince were reduced. The prince could not create a court on his own, he could not distribute Novgorod lands and state "letters" without the control of the posadnik. It was forbidden to acquire land in the republic to the prince and his vassals. Legislative and diplomatic activity could not be carried out alone, but the princes received a certain part of the financial income of the Republic.
Entering the election of a new Russian bishop (1156)
The local bishop played an important role in the administration of Novgorod. Until the middle of the 12th century, he was ordained by a Russian metropolitan with a cathedral of bishops in Kyiv, therefore, under the influence of the Grand Duke. But from the second half of the 12th century, Novgorodians began to choose from the local clergy and their lord, gathering "with the whole city" at a veche and sending the chosen one to Kyiv to the Metropolitan for ordination. The first such elective bishop was Abbot of one of the local monasteries Arkady, who was elected by the Novgorodians in 1156. Since then, the Metropolitan of Kyiv had only the right to ordain a candidate sent from Novgorod.
Revolt against the posadnik Miroshkinich (1207)
The political history of Novgorod in the 12th-13th centuries was distinguished by a complex interweaving of the struggle for independence with the anti-feudal actions of the masses and the struggle for power between the boyar groups (representing the boyar families of the Torgovy and Sofia sides of the city, its ends and streets). The boyars often used the anti-feudal actions of the urban poor to remove their rivals from power, dulling the anti-feudal nature of these actions by reprisals against individual boyars or officials. The largest anti-feudal movement was the uprising in 1207 against the posadnik Dmitry Miroshkinich and his relatives, who burdened the city people and peasants with arbitrary exactions and usurious bondage. The rebels destroyed the city estates and the villages of Miroshkinichi seized their debt bondages. The boyars, hostile to the Miroshkinichs, took advantage of the uprising to remove them from power.
Crisis of republican statehood
The evolution of republican statehood was accompanied by the extinction of the role of the city council. At the same time, the importance of the city boyar council grew. More than once in history, the real meaning of money and power over the people destroyed the so-called democracy. Republican statehood changed from relative democracy to an outright oligarchic system of government by the 15th century. In the 13th century, a council was formed of representatives from the five ends of Novgorod, from which posadniks were selected. This council very purposefully played with the interests of the people at the veche. At the beginning of the 15th century, the decisions of the veche were almost entirely prepared by the council. The Novgorod boyars, contrary to the interests of the townspeople, prevented the annexation to Moscow. But mass beatings and violence did not help. In 1478 Novgorod submitted to Moscow.
4. Kiev principality
4.1. Loss of all-Russian significance
Already in the middle of the XII century. the power of the Kyiv princes began to have real significance only within the Kyiv principality itself, which included lands along the banks of the tributaries of the Dnieper - the Teterev, the Irpen and the semi-autonomous Porose, inhabited by the "Black Hoods" vassals from Kyiv. The attempt of Yaropolk, who became Prince of Kiev after the death of Mstislav I, to arbitrarily dispose of the "fatherlands" of other princes, was decisively suppressed.
Despite the loss of all-Russian significance by Kyiv, the struggle for possession of it continued until the invasion of the Mongols. There was no order in the inheritance of the Kievan table, and it passed from hand to hand depending on the balance of forces of the fighting princely groups and, to a large extent, on the attitude towards them from the powerful Kievan boyars and the Black Hoods. In the conditions of the all-Russian struggle for Kyiv, the local boyars sought to end the strife and to political stabilization in their principality. Invitation by the boyars in 1113 Monomakh to Kyiv in (bypassing the then accepted order of succession) was a precedent used later to justify their "right" to choose a strong and pleasing prince and conclude a "row" with him that protected their territorial and corporate interests. The boyars who violated this series of princes were eliminated by going over to the side of his rivals or even by conspiracy (as, perhaps, Yuri Dolgoruky was poisoned, deposed, and then killed in 1147 during a popular uprising, Igor Olgovich Chernigov). As more and more princes were involved in the struggle for Kyiv, the Kyiv boyars resorted to a peculiar system of princely dualism, inviting representatives from two or more rival princely groups to Kyiv as co-rulers, which for some time achieved the relative political balance necessary for the Kyiv land.
As Kyiv loses the all-Russian significance of individual rulers of the strongest principalities, who have become "great" in their lands, the decision in Kyiv of their proteges - "handmaids" begins to satisfy.
4.2. Kyiv - the arena of hostilities
Princely strife over Kyiv turned Kyiv land into an arena of frequent hostilities, during which cities and villages were ruined, and the population was driven into captivity. Kyiv itself was subjected to cruel pogroms, both by the princes who entered it as victors, and by those who left it as a vanquished and returned to their "homeland". All this predetermined the emerging from the beginning of the XIII century. the gradual decline of the Kyiv land, the ebb of its population in the northwestern regions of the country, less affected by princely strife and virtually inaccessible to the Polovtsy. Periods of temporary strengthening of Kyiv during the reign of such prominent political figures and organizers of the struggle against the Polovtsy as Svyatoslav Vsevolodovich Chernigov (1180-1194) and Roman Mstislavich Volynsky (1202-1205) alternated with the rule of colorless, kaleidoscopically successive princes. Daniil Romanovich Galitsky, in whose hands Kyiv passed shortly before Batu took it, had already limited himself to appointing his posadnik from the boyars.
5. Chernigov and Smolensk principalities
5.1. Allocation of Chernihiv land
These two large principalities under the Dnieper had much in common with other southern Russian principalities in their economy and political system. Here already in the IX-XI centuries. a large princely and boyar land ownership was formed, cities grew rapidly, becoming centers of handicraft production, which had developed external relations. Extensive trade relations, especially with the West, had the Smolensk principality, in which the upper reaches of the Volga, Dnieper and Western Dvina converged - the most important trade routes of Eastern Europe.
Allocation of the Chernihiv land in an independent principality occurred in the second half of the XI century. in connection with its transfer (together with Muromo - Ryazan land) to the son of Yaroslav the Wise Svyatoslav, for whose descendants she was entrenched. Even at the end of the XI century. the ancient ties between Chernigov and Tmutarakan were interrupted, cut off by the Polovtsy from the rest of the Russian lands and falling into the sovereignty of Byzantium. At the end of the 40s. 12th century The Chenigov principality was divided into two principalities: Chernigov and Novgorod-Seversky. At the same time, Muromo - Ryazan land, which fell under the influence of the Vladimir-Suzdal princes, became isolated. Smolensk land became isolated from Kyiv at the end of the 20s. XII century., When it went to the son of Mstislav I Rostislav. Under him and his descendants, the Smolensk principality expanded territorially and strengthened.
5.2. Fight for Kyiv
The middle, connecting position of the Chernigov and Smolensk principalities among other Russian lands involved their princes in all the political events that took place in Russia in the XII-XIII centuries. and above all in the struggle for neighboring Kyiv. The princes of Chernigov and Seversk, indispensable participants (and often initiators) of all princely strife, were especially active politically, unscrupulous in the means of combating their opponents and more often than other princes, resorting to an alliance with the Polovtsy, with whom they devastated the lands of their rivals.
The grand princely power in the Chernihiv and Smolensk lands could not overcome the forces of feudal decentralization, and as a result, these lands at the end of the 13th century. fragmented into many small principalities, only nominally recognizing the sovereignty of the great princes.
6. Polotsk-Minsk land
6.1. Isolation from Kyiv
Early discovered tendencies towards isolation from Kyiv Polotsk-Minsk land. Despite the unfavorable soil conditions for agriculture, the socio-economic development of the Polotsk land proceeded at a high pace due to its favorable location at the crossroads of the most important trade routes along the Western Dvina, Neman and Berezina. Lively trade relations with the West and neighboring Baltic tribes (Livs, Lats, Curonians, etc.), who were under the sovereignty of the Polotsk princes, contributed to the growth of cities with a significant and influential trading layer in them. A large-scale feudal economy with developed agricultural crafts, the products of which were also exported abroad, also developed here early.
6.2. Crushing of the Polotsk-Minsk land
At the beginning of the XI century. Polotsk land went to the brother of Yaroslav the Wise Izyaslav, whose descendants, relying on the support of the local nobility and townspeople, fought for the independence of their "fatherland" from Kyiv for more than a hundred years with varying success. Polotsk land reached its greatest power in the second half of the 11th century. in the reign of Vyacheslav Bryachislavich (1044 - 1103), but in the XII century. it began an intensive process of feudal fragmentation. In the first half of the XIII century. it was already a conglomeration of small principalities, only nominally recognizing the power of the Polotsk Grand Duke. These principalities, weakened by internal strife, faced a difficult struggle (in alliance with the neighboring and dependent Baltic tribes) with the German crusaders who invaded the Eastern Baltic. From the middle of the XIII century. The Polotsk land became the object of an offensive by the Lithuanian feudal lords.
Conclusion
The period of feudal fragmentation is characterized by the development of all its economic and socio-political institutions of feudal land ownership and economy, medieval crafts and cities of feudal immunity and the feudal estate hierarchy, the dependence of the peasants, the main elements of the feudal state apparatus.
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Almost every state in the world in the early stages of its development went through fragmentation and disunity. This also applies to Ancient Russia. The period of political fragmentation began in the 12th century and lasted only about a century - however, during this time, both negative and positive consequences were clearly manifested.
Reasons for the political fragmentation of Russia
There are two main reasons.
- Firstly, there were too many applicants for the great reign, and everyone wanted to take the Kyiv table one way or another. This led to endless strife, skirmishes between neighboring principalities, to the impossibility of reaching an agreement.
- Secondly, despite the previous aspect, Kyiv gradually lost its political significance. Fought for him rather out of habit. New centers were formed, developing independently of each other, the inhabitants of Ancient Russia were generally more inclined to migrate to its northeastern part - it was removed from the border with the Steppe and safer.
It should be noted that in 1097, the princes at the Lyubech Congress tried to rectify the situation - to stop the strife for Kyiv and to focus on everyone's own lot. It is quite logical that after such a decision, the process of political disengagement only accelerated.
The consequences of the political fragmentation of Russia
Why is fragmentation considered a negative phenomenon?
The answers to this question are obvious.
- Russia lost its military power. Now dozens of principalities opposed the enemies on their own, and did not act as a united front. The steppe nomads did not fail to take advantage of this.
- Quarrels between the princes did not stop, but only became more frequent - now everyone perceived the lands of their neighbor as valuable military booty.
What are the good consequences of fragmentation?
However, the two-hundred-year period of disunity went to Russia not only to the detriment, but also to the good.
- The economy of individual cities flourished, no longer dependent on Kyiv.
- There were unique cultural schools - for example, Suzdal, Novgorod, Kyiv. They had much in common, but they also had significant differences, which is why they are still of great interest to researchers.
Of course, politically divided Russia did not turn into a union of "independent principalities." Formally, the Grand Duke remained the head of the country, in Russia the church common to all destinies continued to operate, a single language and cultural values \u200b\u200bwere preserved. Nevertheless, in the XIII century, in the aspect of the fight against the Mongol yoke, the return to unity became a fundamentally important issue.
Ways of Christianization: peaceful and militant.
Peaceful: princely decrees, missionary activities, translations of sacred books, construction of churches, temples.
Militant - military campaigns of the prince. The sword was forced to be baptized.
Consequences of the adoption of Orthodoxy
Orthodoxy became the spiritual basis for the political unification of the Russian lands.
The introduction of Russia to the culture of the ancient world began - the flowering of ancient Russian culture.
Expansion of international relations with European countries
The comprehensive influence of the church on Russian society is humanity, blood feud is canceled, the significance of the family (one husband, one wife)
Old Russian culture: the 60s of the 9th century - the appearance of writing.
Chronicles, lives, instructive literature.
1136 scientific work with the calculation of dates.
Schools at monasteries. Higher educational institution - Kiev-Pechora Monastery.
Exam question. Problems of political and social development of Kievan Rus in the 10th-12th centuries.
In the 10th century, the borders of the Kievan state were formed, which outwardly remained unchanged until the 13th century. Inside, the state was divided not by tribes, but by volosts - cities with surrounding regions. The borders of volosts in the 10th-12th centuries were not stable, they changed as a result of strife, divisions between princes. Public power was exercised by the great prince of Kyiv, the rulers of the volosts were nominally subordinate to him. The eldest of the Rurikovichs was always appointed to the Kievan throne. After Vladimir I, posadniks appeared in the volosts - the sons of Rurikovich. The prince of Kyiv had a boyar duma as an advisory governing body, the entire peasantry depended on the power of the prince and the boyars. The monarchical tendency is intensifying - the princes have monarchical power. The high role of free communities in rural areas and veche authorities in cities remains. The city council resolved issues of war and peace, announced the convocation of the militia, and sometimes had the right to change princes. For example, Galicia-Volyn principality, Novgorod land.
Problems of social development.
10-12 centuries - the feudal system.
Feudal lords: 1) prince 2) boyars 3) clergy.
Peasants: 1) free - smerdy 2) semi-dependent - purchases and ryadovichi 3) dependent - serfs
Part of the land still belonged to free community members, who had not only a household, but also the necessary tools.
Smerdy is the largest group of the peasant population. Often, harassment by the boyars and the prince, combatants led to the ruin of the smerds and a change in their social status. Smerds could become semi-dependent, become ryadovichi (ruined, poor peasants who entered into an agreement - a number - on the conditions of work for the feudal lord).
Kupa - to borrow grain, livestock, equipment for sowing.
Purchases - community members, peasants who borrowed a kupa from a boyar. They were obliged to bear various duties in favor of the feudal lord - they plowed the land, grazed cattle - until the full return of the debt and interest on it.
If the purchase could not repay the debt, then it became dependent on the feudal lord. Often the whole family became serfs.
A social problem for Kievan Rus is the transition from a free state to a semi-dependent state, up to servility.
LEARN. Purchases, ryadovichi, estates, posadniks, tithes.
exam question. Feudal fragmentation in Russia in the 12th-13th centuries.
Feudal fragmentation - political and economic decentralization. The creation on the territory of one state of independent independent principalities, formally having a common ruler, a single religion - Orthodoxy, uniform laws of "Russian Truth".
An alternative to the social development of Udelnaya Rus
The energetic and ambitious policy of the Vladimir-Suzdal princes led to an increase in the influence of the Vladimir-Suzdal principality on the entire Russian state.
Yuri Dolgoruky, son of Vladimir Monomakh, received the Vladimir principality in his reign. 1125-1157.
1147 Moscow first appears in chronicles. The founder is boyar Kuchka.
Andrei Bogolyubsky, son of Yuri Dolgoruky. 1157-1174. The capital was moved from Rostov to Vladimir, the new title of the ruler is Tsar and Grand Duke.
The Vladimir-Suzdal principality flourished under Vsevolod the Big Nest. 1176-1212.
The monarchy was finally established.
Consequences of fragmentation.
Positive
Growth and strengthening of cities
Active development of crafts
Settling undeveloped lands
Laying roads
Development of domestic trade
The flourishing of the cultural life of the principalities
Strengthening the local self-government apparatus
Negative
Continuation of the process of fragmentation of lands and principalities
Internecine wars
Weak central government
Vulnerability to external enemies
At the end of the 11th century, Ancient Russia entered an inevitable period of development of feudal relations, expressed in political fragmentation. The unified state broke up into several independent parts, leading a fierce struggle among themselves. At the heart of the division of the "Russian land" between the Yaroslavichs lay deep reasons.
"Testament" of Yaroslav the Wise and Yaroslavichi
In 1054, Yaroslav the Wise felt the approach of death and made the famous “Testament”, dividing Russia between his sons:
- Izyaslav - Kyiv;
- Svyatoslav - Chernihiv;
- Vsevolod - Pereyaslavl.
Yaroslavichi for a long time peacefully ruled their lands, but in the 70s. a struggle broke out again between them, in which the grandchildren of Yaroslav the Wise already participated.
Rice. 1. Yaroslav the Wise. Reconstruction by M. M. Gerasimov.
In 1097, a congress of 6 princes took place in Lyubech, at which a decision was made: “Everyone and keep his fatherland.”
This decision officially approved political fragmentation and was supposed to end the civil strife.
Immediately after the Lubech Congress, Svyatopolk lured Vasilko Rostislavovich into a trap and blinded him.
"Ladder"
One of the reasons for the political fragmentation of Russia in the 12th-13th century was the “ladder” order of the grand ducal heritage, enshrined at the congress in Lyubech. According to this order, Kyiv was given to the eldest son of the Grand Duke, the rest of the sons received inheritances in order of seniority (also starting from larger to smaller ones).
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The next in line were the children of the older brother, then the younger ones. After the death of the next Grand Duke, all the rest moved in seniority from inheritance to inheritance.
Rice. 2. Scheme.
The genus of Rurikovich quickly increased, which led to confusion. Often a nephew was older than his uncle and therefore began to challenge his seniority.
The “ladder” order led to the appearance of outcast princes, who, due to the early death of their father, did not receive appanages at all.
Disputes led to armed conflicts. In the 12th century, they begin to take shape princely land clans:
- Monomashici;
- Mstislavichi;
- Rostislavichi;
- Olgovichi, etc.
Rice. 3. Map "Russian lands in the XII century."
These clans were interested in staying where they were. They considered the liberation from the power of Kyiv to be the main task.
Socio-economic causes of fragmentation
Ancient Russia from the moment of formation consisted of several major principalities:
- Kyiv;
- Chernihiv;
- Galician;
- Volynskoye;
- Vladimirskoe;
- Suzdal;
- Novgorod.
By the beginning of the 13th century, there were already about 30 independent principalities in Russia.
The central cities of these principalities gradually grew, grew richer and subjugated the surrounding territories. They formed their own land nobility, boyars and warriors.
The development of feudal relations "tied" large landowners (princes and boyars) to their lands. It was more profitable for them to strengthen their own principality than to seek the throne of Kyiv.
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