{"id":1711,"date":"2011-01-03T12:44:26","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T12:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2014-07-17T14:22:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T14:22:35","slug":"a-history-of-kiev-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/a-history-of-kiev-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A History of Kiev, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>\u00ab\u0417\u0434\u0440<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u0432\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0443\u0439\u0442\u0435, \u0434\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0433<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0438<\/span>\u0435 \u0447\u0438\u0442<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u0442\u0435\u043b\u0438\u00bb<\/strong> [Hello, dear readers]. Due to the holidays, I have not been able to post as often as I ought to, but I have returned to bring you <strong>\u00ab\u0438\u0441\u0442<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u043e<\/span>\u0440\u0438\u044f \u041a<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0438<\/span>\u0435\u0432\u0430, \u0447\u0430\u0441\u0442\u044c \u0432\u0442\u043e\u0440<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u044f\u00bb<\/strong> [a history of Kiev, part two]. <strong>\u00ab\u0418\u0441\u0442<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u043e<\/span>\u0440\u0438\u044f \u041a<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0438<\/span>\u0435\u0432\u0430, \u0447\u0430\u0441\u0442\u044c \u043f<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0435<\/span>\u0440\u0432\u0430\u044f\u00bb<\/strong> [a history of Kiev, part one] can be read <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/a-history-of-kiev-part-1\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00ab\u0412 1054 (\u0442<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u044b<\/span>\u0441\u044f\u0447\u0430 \u043f\u044f\u0442\u044c\u0434\u0435\u0441<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u044f<\/span>\u0442 \u0447\u0435\u0442\u0432\u0451\u0440\u0442\u043e\u043c) \u0433\u043e\u0434<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0443<\/span>\u00bb<\/strong> [In the year 1054], the Eastern church split. This split is generally called <strong>\u00ab\u0412\u0435\u043b<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0438<\/span>\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0440\u0430\u0441\u043a<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u043e<\/span>\u043b\u00bb<\/strong> [the Great Schism]. (Do you recognize the word <strong>\u00ab\u0440\u0430\u0441\u043a<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u043e<\/span>\u043b\u00bb<\/strong> as the root of the name of the protagonist in <strong>\u00ab\u041f\u0440\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0443\u043f\u043b<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0435<\/span>\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u0438 \u043d\u0430\u043a\u0430\u0437<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u0414\u043e\u0441\u0442\u043e<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0435<\/span>\u0432\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0433\u043e\u00bb<\/strong> [Dostoevsky&#8217;s <em>Crime and Punishment<\/em>]? The protagonist&#8217;s name, if you&#8217;ll remember, is <strong>\u00ab\u0420\u043e\u0434\u0438<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u043e<\/span>\u043d \u0420\u043e\u043c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0447 \u0420\u0430\u0441\u043a<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u043e<\/span>\u043b\u044c\u043d\u0438\u043a\u043e\u0432\u00bb<\/strong> [Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov].) The background and reasons for <strong>\u00ab\u0412\u0435\u043b<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0438<\/span>\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0440\u0430\u0441\u043a<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u043e<\/span>\u043b\u00bb<\/strong> are extremely detailed and complicated, so I am not going to go into much depth, as I do not think I could explain it properly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00ab\u041f<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u043e<\/span>\u0441\u043b\u0435 \u0412\u0435\u043b<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0438<\/span>\u043a\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0440\u0430\u0441\u043a<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u043e<\/span>\u043b\u0430\u00bb<\/strong>, Kiev did not fare well. <strong>\u00ab\u0412 1203 (\u0442<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u044b<\/span>\u0441\u044f\u0447\u0430 \u0434\u0432<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0435<\/span>\u0441\u0442\u0438 \u0442\u0440<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0435<\/span>\u0442\u044c\u0435\u043c) \u0433\u043e\u0434<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0443<\/span> \u041a<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0438<\/span>\u0435\u0432 \u0431\u044b\u043b \u0437\u0430\u0445\u0432\u0430\u0447\u0435\u043d \u0438 \u0441\u043e\u0436\u0436\u0451\u043d \u043a\u043d<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u044f<\/span>\u0437\u0435\u043c \u0420<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u044e<\/span>\u0440\u0438\u043a\u043e\u043c \u0420\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438\u0441\u043b\u0430\u0432\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0447\u0435\u043c\u00bb<\/strong> [In 1203 Kiev was captured and burned by Prince Rurik Rostislavovich]. And if that was not bad enough, <strong>\u00ab\u0432 1240 (\u0442<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u044b<\/span>\u0441\u044f\u0447\u0430 \u0434\u0432<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0435<\/span>\u0441\u0442\u0438 \u0441\u043e\u0440\u043e\u043a\u043e\u0432<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u043e<\/span>\u043c) \u0433\u043e\u0434<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0443<\/span> \u041a<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0438<\/span>\u0435\u0432 \u0431\u044b\u043b \u0440\u0430\u0437\u0440<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0443<\/span>\u0448\u0435\u043d \u043c\u043e\u043d\u0433\u043e\u043b\u043e-\u0442\u0430\u0442\u0430\u0440\u0430\u043c\u0438\u00bb<\/strong> [in 1240 Kiev was destroyed by the Mongol-Tartars]. <strong>\u00ab\u041a\u043d\u044f\u0437\u044c \u041c\u0438\u0445\u0430<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0438<\/span>\u043b \u0412\u0441<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0435<\/span>\u0432\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0434\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0447 \u043f\u0440<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u0432\u0438\u043b \u0434\u043e 1243 (\u0442<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u044b<\/span>\u0441\u044f\u0447\u0430 \u0434<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0432<\/span>\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0438 \u0441<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u043e<\/span>\u0440\u043e\u043a \u0442\u0440<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0435<\/span>\u0442\u044c\u0435\u0433\u043e) \u0433\u043e\u0434\u0430\u00bb<\/strong> [Prince Mikhail Vsevolodovich ruled until 1243].<\/p>\n<p>In the autumn of 1362 was <strong>\u00ab\u0411<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0438<\/span>\u0442\u0432\u0430 \u043d\u0430 \u0421<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0438<\/span>\u043d\u0438\u0445 \u0412\u043e\u0434<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u0445\u00bb<\/strong> [the Battle of Blue Waters], after which the transfer of Kiev from <strong>\u00ab\u0417\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0442<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u044f \u043e\u0440\u0434<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u00bb<\/strong> [the Golden Horde] to <strong>\u00ab\u0420\u0435\u0447\u044c \u041f\u043e\u0441\u043f\u043e\u043b<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0438<\/span>\u0442\u0430\u044f\u00bb<\/strong> [the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth]. <strong>\u00ab\u0412 \u043f\u044f\u0442\u043d<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u0434\u0446\u0430\u0442\u043e\u043c \u0432<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0435<\/span>\u043a\u0435 \u043e\u043d \u043f\u043e\u043b\u0443\u0447<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0438<\/span>\u043b \u0433\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0434\u0441\u043a<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0438<\/span>\u0435 \u043f\u0440\u0430\u0432<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u00bb<\/strong> [In the fifteenth century it received &#8220;city rights&#8221; (<em>I&#8217;m not sure this is the best translation; basically it means that Kiev became more autonomous<\/em>)].<\/p>\n<p>In 1569, Kiev became a part of <strong>\u00ab\u041a\u043e\u0440<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u043e<\/span>\u043d\u0430 \u041a\u043e\u0440\u043e\u043b<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0435<\/span>\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0430 \u041f<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u043e<\/span>\u043b\u044c\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0433\u043e\u00bb<\/strong> [the Crown Kingdom of Poland] and everything was going pretty well&#8230; until the uprising of <strong>\u00ab\u0411\u043e\u0433\u0434<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u043d \u0425\u043c\u0435\u043b\u044c\u043d<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0438<\/span>\u0446\u043a\u0438\u0439\u00bb<\/strong> in 1648, which I will tell you about in the next post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2011\/01\/st-andrews-church-350x263.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2011\/01\/st-andrews-church-350x263.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2011\/01\/st-andrews-church-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2011\/01\/st-andrews-church.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>\u00ab\u0417\u0434\u0440\u0430\u0432\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0443\u0439\u0442\u0435, \u0434\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0433\u0438\u0435 \u0447\u0438\u0442\u0430\u0442\u0435\u043b\u0438\u00bb [Hello, dear readers]. Due to the holidays, I have not been able to post as often as I ought to, but I have returned to bring you \u00ab\u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u041a\u0438\u0435\u0432\u0430, \u0447\u0430\u0441\u0442\u044c \u0432\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0430\u044f\u00bb [a history of Kiev, part two]. \u00ab\u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u041a\u0438\u0435\u0432\u0430, \u0447\u0430\u0441\u0442\u044c \u043f\u0435\u0440\u0432\u0430\u044f\u00bb [a history of Kiev, part one] can be read here.\u00a0&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/a-history-of-kiev-part-2\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3,178],"tags":[385633,13102,10802],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-history","tag-history","tag-history-of-kiev","tag-kiev"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6255,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions\/6255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}