"Entry to the Metropolis" Through the olden Gate in 1621 and Searching for the Scheme of the History of "Ruthenian Nation"
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15407/uhj2021.05.077Keywords:
Yov / Job (Boretskyi), Golden Gate, Cossacks, polemics, ceremonies, legitimacy, textual images, Kyivan-Ruthenian past, “Ruthenian nation”Abstract
The aim of the article discusses the anonymous report (which text is attached) about the solemn entry of the metropolitan Yov (Boretskyi) to Kyiv in March 1621.
The methodology of the present scholarship combines the text-critical and narratological approaches to the commenting of the text. The general methodological field of the research is the history of ideas and approaches using in the various studies of the historical culture.
Scientific novelty is the archaeographic publication of the little-known historical source and its contextual analysis of this source to clarify its use for various kinds of a research.
Conclusions. First, this source is the important testimony of the public celebration of Yov’s obtaining the title of metropolitan. This celebration appeared as a symbolic act demonstrating authority and legitimacy of Boretskyi. The ceremonies performed by the metropolitan near the Golden Gate and the St. Sophia Cathedral presented him as the successor of the medieval Ruthenian Orthodox Church established by the prince Volodymyr. The messages of the ceremonies were in line with those expressed in the subsequent texts by the prominent Orthodox authors, e.g. Protestation by Boretskyi. Specifically, Smotrytsky claimed that after the Church Union of Brest (1596), which proclaimed the Orthodox Church null and void, ordaining Yov as the metropolitan of Kyiv signified the revival of both the church and historical tradition of the “Ruthenian nation”. At the same time, the description of the Boretskyi’s entry to Kyiv urges to pose the question about the historical tradition of solemn entries near the Golden Gate and its perceiving as the important “memory space” within the discourse of the Orthodox Church in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Thus, Boretskyi’s solemn entry is placed in the context of the processes of active “recollecting” the Kyiv-Ruthenian past and sketching the history of the Orthodox “Ruthenian nation”, which started in 1620s. At the same time, this ceremony attested the role of Kyiv as the sacred space with important historical legacy. It is obvious in comparising of the ceremonies near the Golden Gate as performed by the metropolitans in 1621 and 1654.
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