Mother of Rus' cities
Mother of Rus' cities[1][2] (Ukrainian: Мати міст руських; Russian: Мать городов русских word by word : Mother of cities of Rus) — circumduction from ancient literature used to refer to Kiev — the capital of Kievan Rus' (now Ukraine). Linguist Dmitry Likhachov suggested the expression "mother of cities" is a calque from Greek "metropolis": Greek: μήτηρ + Greek: πόλις.[1]
Most known from the fragment of the article 882 in Primary Chronicle:[3]
| “ | Old East Slavic: Въ лѣто 6390 … [и] сѣде Ѡлегъ кнѧжа въ Києвѣ. и реч Ѡлегъ се буди мт҃и градомъ рускими. | ” |
| “ | English: In the year 6390… Oleg settled in Kiev to rule there, and said: «Let this be the mother of the cities of Rus».[4] | ” |
In addition, the phrase occurs in a number of works, such as:[5]
- «Word for the renovation of the Church of the Tithes»;
- «Troparion to Saint Vladimir».
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ Christian History Project. Society to Explore and Record Christian History. The Christians: their first two thousand years, 2002
- ↑ J. Christie, J. Bogdanović, E. Guzmán Political landscapes of capital cities, University Press of Colorado, 2016.
- ↑ "From the Laurentian manuscript".(in Ukrainian)
- ↑ Kiev, “Mother of the Cities of Rus”. Translation and Commentary by Frederick R. Patton, West Chester University
- ↑ Назаренко А. В. Была ли столица в Древней Руси? Некоторые сравнительно-исторические и терминологические наблюдения // Назаренко А. В. Древняя Русь и славяне.- С. 105 (in Russian)
External links[edit]
- Primary Chronicle, Laurentian Text. Translated and edited by Samuel Hazzard Cross and Olgerd P. Sherbowitz-Wetzor. Cambridge
- Franklin Simon and Shepard Jonathan. The emergence of Rus 750–1200, London-New York: Longman, 1996.
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