Российская историография XVIII–начала XX вв. о русско-византийских отношениях IX–X вв. / Russian historiography XVIII-XX centuries of Russian-Byzantine relations IX-X centuries

Abstract

Given article gives a historiographic overview of studying of Rus-Byzantine relations of IX-X century by the Russian researchers. This was the phase of the relations when they had started and came a long way from military conflicts to the developed diplomatic system. Overview is devoted to the time from XVIII to the early XX century. In the colclusion, author sums up that in spite of all the big progress in historical analysis of Rus-Byzantine relations, many questions which follow from the reading all the resources in comparison remained unsolved. Consistent conception of the foreign policy of both states was also not formed.

Keywords

• History
• diplomatics
• Byzantium
• Ancient Russia