The Tale of the Princes of Vladimir
Eastern Roman Empire
The Tale of the Princes of Vladimir (
Third Rome.[1] It has been attributed either to Dmitry Gerasimov or Pachomius the Serb, among other learned monks.[2]
The book traces the male-line descent of Muscovy's royal family not only from
Vladimir Monomakh
, and which was used at coronations in Muscovy.
The treatise provided the ideological background for
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illustrating The Tale.
References
- ^ Dimitrij Cizevskij. History of Russian Literature: From the Eleventh Century to the End of the Baroque. Walter de Gruyter, 1960. Pages 251–252.
- ^ Жданов И. Н., Повести о Вавилоне и "Сказание о князьях владимирских", СПБ, 1891.
- ^ Soviet Historical Encyclopaedia
- ^ Isabel De Madariaga. Ivan the Terrible. Yale University Press, 2006. Pages 32–33.
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