Русь, Византия и Западная Европа: Из истории внешнеполитических и культурных связей XII—XIII вв.

ИЗ — Исторические записки (М.)

ИОРЯС — Известия Отделения русского языка и словесности Императорской Академии наук (СПб.)

ИСССР — История СССР (М.)

КСИА АН СССР — Краткие сообщения Института археологии Академии наук СССР

КСИИМК — Краткие сообщения Института истории материальной культуры РАН

ЛХ — Летописи и хроники

НИС — Новгородский исторический сборник

ОИ — Отечественная история (М.)

ПБПВ — Письма и бумаги Петра Великого

ПВЛ — Повесть временных лет

ПК — Памятники культуры. Новые открытия. Ежегодник

ПЛДР — Памятники литературы Древней Руси

ПР — Правда Русская

ПРП — Памятники русского права

ПС — Палестинский сборник / Православный палестинский сборник

ПСРЛ — Полное собрание русских летописей

РИБ — Русская историческая библиотека

САИ — Свод археологических источников

Сб. РИО — Сборник Русского исторического общества

СККДР — Словарь книжников и книжности Древней Руси

СлДРЯз XI–XIV вв. — Словарь древнерусского языка XI–XIV вв.

СлРЯз XI–XVII вв. — Словарь русского языка XI–XVII вв.

СлРЯз XVIII в. — Словарь русского языка XVIII в.

СС — Советское славяноведение

ТОДЛР

— Труды Отдела древнерусской литературы Института русской литературы (Пушкинский Дом) РАН

УІЖ — Український історичний журнал (Київ)

ЭО — Этнографическое обозрение

BF — Byzantinische Forschungen

BMGS — Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies

BP — Balcanica Posnaniensia. Acta et Studia

BS — Byzantinoslavica

BZ — Byzantinische Zeitschrift

CDA — Codex diplomaticus Arpadianus Continuatus / Ed. G. Wenzel

CDERB — Codex diplomaticus et epistolaris regni Bohemiae

CDH — Codex diplomaticus Hungariae ecclesiasticus ac civilis / Ed. G. Fejer

ÉB — Études balkaniques

FRA — Fontes rerum Austriacarum. Diplomataria et acta.

HRM — Historia Russiae Monumenta / Ab. A.J. Turgenev

JGO — Jahrbücher fur Geschichte Osteuropas

KH — Kwartalnik Historyczny

LMA — Lexikon des Mittelalters

MGH. SS — Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Scriptores

MPH — Monumenta Poloniae Historica

MP V — Monumenta Poloniae Vaticana (Analecta Vaticana, 1202–1366) / Ed. J. Ptaśnik

MSHSM. SS — Monumenta spectantia historiam Slavorum meridionalium. Scriptores

ODB — The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium

PL — Patrologiae cursus Completus. Patrologiae latinae / Ed. J.P. Migne

RA — Rossica antiqua. Исследования и материалы

RÉB — Revue des études byzantines

RÉS

— Revue des études slaves

RIS — Rerum Italicarum Scriptores

RMS — Reading Medieval Studies

SK — Seminarium Kondakovianum

SO — Slavia Orientalis

SSS — Słownik starożytności Słowiańskich. Encykłopedyczny zarys kultury słowian od zcasów najdawniejszych

TM — Travaux et Mémoires. Centre de recherches d'histoire et civilisation de Byzance.

VMH — Vetera Monumenta Historica Hungariam sacram illustrantia maximam partem nondum edita ex tabulariis vaticanis / Ed. A. Theiner

VMSM — Vetera Monumenta Slavorum meridionalium / Ed. A. Theiner

Summary

Political and cultural connections between Rus', Byzantium and Western Europe achieved much significance to the end of the 12th c. — beginning of the 13th c. First of all, they can be seen in home and foreign policy of Roman Mstislavich, the prince of Galich and Volyn.

The thing of great interest for the historians is Roman's project of «good order» delivered at the year of 1203 by V.N. Tatischev, who used the old Novgorod chronicle in his work. There are no mentions about the project in the Kiev and the Vladimir of Suzdal writings since the princes ruling there were hostile to Roman's idea to elect the Great Prince of Kiev.

All the text of the report on Roman's project is written on the new (late) folios of Academician ms of Russian History. Thanks to the writing manner (increasing of number of lines, decreasing of the size of letters and the space in between) the text of these leaves is almost one and the half larger than the normal page of the manuscript. But in spite of all the devices used by the copyist one couldn't put the complete text of the report on the project on the newly written leaves. It had to be the previous text of the same contents exempted in the process of copying. It means that Tatischev had the information about the project at the very beginning of his work with the 1st variant of the Russian History and therefore it cannot be thought to be the later fiction.

It couldn't happen by chance that Roman's reformation plans reflected the order of election of the superior ruler and some other political institutions of the Holy Roman Empire. The prince of Galich and Volyn suggested establishing the «good order» similar to «the other good ordered states» meaning without doubt the order of election of the German King and the Emperor established in the beginning of the 13th c. with the participation of the board of six Empire princes which was equal to the number of «the elder princes» who were to elect the Great Prince of Kiev according to Roman's project.