Olena Kolybenko

Candidate of Historical Sciences (PhD), Assistant Professor, Senior Researcher of the Museum of Forestry History Research Branch «Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of the Middle Nadnipryashina», National Historical and Ethnographic Reserve «Pereiaslav», Pereiaslav, Ukraine

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4009-5417

E-mail: olenkakolybenko@gmail.com

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Oleksandr Kolybenko

Candidate of Historical Sciences (PhD), Professor, Deputy General Director for Scientific and Methodological Work, National Historical and Ethnographic Reserve «Pereiaslav», Pereiaslav, Ukraine

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8616-9074

E-mail: kolybenko@gmail.com

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Keywords: boyar Ratybor, Pereiaslavl of Rus’, Volodymyr Monomakh, time, space, military campaigns, route, distance.

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Abstract

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The article deals with temporal and spatial aspects of life and work of the most famous Pereiaslavl boyar Ratybor. According to anthroponymic research, he was from the Slavic lands on the coast of the Baltic Sea and was the grandson of the Prince Ratybor of the Bodrichs. He arrived in Rus’ as a result of the campaign of the Great Prince of Kyiv, Yaroslav Volodymyrovych when he was very young. He grew up in the family of Yaroslav together with his children. Having princely, but not Rus’ origin, Ratybor started to play a leading role in the druzhyna of princes Iziaslav Yaroslavych and Vsevolod Yaroslavych from a young age. Then he also played a leading role in the druzhyna of Volodymyr Vsevolodovych Monomakh where he improved his skills as a military leader and diplomat, a participant in numerous campaigns against the Cumans and other rival princes of Monomakh. At the end of his long life, he became the Kyiv tysyatsky – the highest boyar position in Rus’. During the period of his life, Ratybor took part in a significant number of campaigns and movements both on the territory of Rus’ and abroad which allowed making an attempt of their spatial analysis

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