OLD RUSSIAN WORKS ON THE ANNEXATION OF THE NORTH-WESTERN LANDS TO THE GRAND DUCHY OF MOSCOW: THE INFLUENCE OF THE PLACE OF CREATION OF THE WORK ON ITS CONTENT

Abstract

The article examines the influence of the place of creation of the work on its content. The creation of the Old Russian “literary map” is promising in which there is various information about territorial distribution of Old Russian texts. On the example of works about the accession of the North-Western lands to the Moscow state, it is shown that the place of creation can have a decisive influence on how events represented, rhetorical techniques and means of artistic expression are used. Using the methods of historical-literary and comparative analysis, the author reveals differences in the ideology and poetics of Moscow, Novgorod and Pskov Chronicles about the Novgorod campaign of Ivan III in in 1471-1478, as well as differences in the Pskov and Moscow points of view on the accession of Pskov to Moscow, reflected in the chronicle texts.