Ukrainian realities in the literary works of Mykhalon Lytvyn
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15407/uhj2019.01.004Keywords:
Michalonus Lituanus, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Kyiv, Kyiv Cave Monastery, Ivan the Terrible.Abstract
The article focuses on the treatise "De Moribus Tartarorum, Lituanorum et Moschorum" written in Latin са.1550, presented to the Polish-Lithuanian ruler Sigismund August and fragmentarily published in 1615. Its author hid his name under the pseudonym Michalonus Lituanus. The treatise is now attributed to Wenceslaw Mikolaewich, a Latin secretary of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania’s state chancellery. Author adds some new facts to his biography and analyzes Ukrainian aspects of his literary work. This helps her to shed some additional light on the treatise as a monument of sociopolitical thought of the age. A special attention is paid to the concept "Kyiv as Troy" which is the only evidence of public reception of the treatise. Of no less importance is a controversial issue of relationship between Muscovite ruling circles and some Kyivan monasteries which lost their land property after the war between Muscovy and Lithuania (1500–1503). According to author’s observations, in the 16th century in contradiction to what Lituanus said Muscovite rulers recognized legal right of Kyivan monasteries to draw interest from monastic lands near NovhorodSiverskyi, Starodub and Putyvl.
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