Vyatichi

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Radziwiłł Letopis
, late 15th century.

The Vyatichs or more properly Vyatichi or Viatichi (

Moskva and Don rivers.[2]

The Vyatichi had for a long time no princes, but the social structure was characterized by

self-government.[3] Like various other Slavic tribes, the Vyatichi people built kurgans on territory which belongs now to the modern Russian state.[4] The 12th-century Primary Chronicle recorded that the Vyatichi, Radimichs and Severians "had the same customs", all lived violent lifestyles, "burned their dead and preserved the ashes in urns set upon posts beside the highways", and they did not enter monogamous marriages but practiced polygamy, specifically polygyny, instead.[5][6]

Modern stylized imagery of the Slavs of the 12th-13th centuries.
People from the Vyatichi tribe and citizens of Veliky Novgorod

The Primary Chronicle names a certain tribal leader Vyatko as the forefather of the tribe, who was a

Chernigov. The last direct reference to the Vyatichi was made in a chronicle
under the year of 1197. Indirect references, however, may be traced to the early 14th century.

Saint Kuksha of the Kiev Caves
was a missionary who converted many Vyatichi to Christianity (in 1115), being beheaded by their chiefs August 27 ca. 1115.

There are numerous archeological monuments in Moscow that tell historians about the Vyatichi. Their fortified settlements of the 11th century were located in the historical center of today's Moscow, namely the

Don
.

References

  1. ISBN 9781442697287
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  2. OCLC 1086798889.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link
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  3. ^ "Slavic tribes as one people". stuklopechat.com. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  4. ^ "Footwear from the Stone Age". www.donsmaps.com. Retrieved 2020-01-29.
  5. ^ a b c Samuel Hazzard Cross and Olgerd P. Sherbowitz-Wetzor (1953). The Russian Primary Chronicle. Laurentian Text (PDF). Cambridge, Mass., Mediaeval Academy of America. pp. 37–38, 56–57, 59, 84, 95, 119, 211, 212.
  6. ISBN 9780801483042
    .

See also

  • Passport of the female costume of the Vyatichi tribe of the late 12th — early 13th centuries.
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