From Indifference to Obsession: Russian Claim to Kyiv History in Travel Literature of the 18th – early 19th Century

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dc.contributor.authorDysa, Kateryna
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-04T21:33:59Z
dc.date.available2024-01-04T21:33:59Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractIn this article, I discuss a relatively recent development of Russian interest in Kyiv as a place with symbolic and historical significance for Russian history, which makes it a desirable target in an ongoing war. I trace the changing attitude of Russian travelers towards Kyiv’s history from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century. Earlier generations of visitors came to Kyiv primarily to visit holy places, with no knowledge of the city’s historical significance, and because it was a more affordable alternative to travel abroad. However, at the end of the eighteenth century, after Catherine II’s royal visit, the publication of guidebooks, and the ascend of history as a discipline, and interest among Russian educated elites, Kyiv’s past became an obsession for many Russian travelers. Their travel accounts were motivated by a search for the past glory of Kyiv. For Russian travelers and authorities, history became one of the key means of appropriation of Kyiv, with a new generation of travelers searching for material evidence connecting Kyivan Rus to the Russian past. However, they were unable to find much material evidence and often used their imagination to present Kyiv as a site of Kyivan Rus history, ignoring the city’s non-Russian heritage.en_US
dc.identifier.citationDysa K. From Indifference to Obsession: Russian Claim to Kyiv History in Travel Literature of the 18th – early 19th Century / Kateryna Dysa // Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal. - 2023. - № 10. - Р. 192-213. - https://doi.org/10.18523/kmhj270983.2023-10.192-213en_US
dc.identifier.issn2313-4895
dc.identifier.urihttps://ekmair.ukma.edu.ua/handle/123456789/27636
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.18523/kmhj270983.2023-10.192-213
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.sourceKyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journalen_US
dc.statusfirst publisheduk_UA
dc.subjecthistory of Kyiven_US
dc.subjecttravel literatureen_US
dc.subjecttraveloguesen_US
dc.subjecteighteenth centuryen_US
dc.subjectnineteenth centuryen_US
dc.subjecttravelers in Kyiven_US
dc.subjectUkraine in Russian Empireen_US
dc.subjectarticleen_US
dc.titleFrom Indifference to Obsession: Russian Claim to Kyiv History in Travel Literature of the 18th – early 19th Centuryen_US
dc.typeArticleuk_UA
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