고대 러시아(Древняя Русь)의 정체성 발현 양상:

Identity manifestation of Ancient Russia - Focused on the narration about Boris and Gleb and a word about Law and Grace

In this paper, close similarities of the structure and ideas of the narration of Boris and Gleb and a word of Law and Grace are considered. In connection with this, this article is devoted to the examination of the historicity and religiosity of Ancient Russia. We should understand the idea and structure of the narration of Boris and Gleb in the context of the broader narrative of the tales of Bygone Years. Nestor, the author of this tales, planned the unity of Ancient Russia through the obedience and brotherly love of Boris and Gleb. He conducts a complicated concept with a journalistic aspiration to convince the princes to end the disastrous wars for the Russian people. Thus, the idea of brotherly love of the princes and their subjugation to the elder was put forward by Nestor as the central link in the historical events of recent years. This narration ideologically and stylistically approaches a word of Law and Grace of Metropolitan Ilarion. Ilarion resorts to numerous parallels from the Bible and stubbornly emphasizes that new people are needed for a new faith, that is, Olga, Vladimir, Svyatoslav and others. He affirms the superiority of Christianity over Judaism and paganism, Grace over the Law. Ilarion, moving from general to particular, narrows that the Russian church and nation acquire the equivalence of the Byzantine church and even more specific features. As a result, Ilarion and Yaroslav the wise succeed in laying solid foundations for Russian political and ecclesiastical independence. Thus, two Narratives are dedicated to the common goal of glorifying the activities of the first Russians, and are linked by a single thought about the gradual triumph of Christianity in Russia.