Andrey Vinogradov
Biographic Data
| ID | 4984726 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrey Vinogradov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Vinogradov |
| SIGNATURE | VINOGRADOV A |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Research University Higher School of Economics |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6080-4463 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 37 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Notitiae Episcopatuum of the Metropolis of Rhosia
Introduction. For the first time, the author provides a comprehensive analysis of ancient lists of bishoprics that were part of the Metropolis of Rhosia, allowing a preliminary reconstruction of their genesis and evolution. Analysis and results. The earliest list, in Notitia episcopatuum 13 (1170s), was formed gradually in three steps, from 1026 onwards. But already in the middle or second half of the 12th century, the same list acquired a differ…
The Goths in Taurica
This paper reopens the question of possible onomastic relics of the Crimean Goths preserved in Byzantine epigraphy of the peninsula. Along with revisiting earlier scholarship, the authors present and discuss several personal names of likely Gothic origin spanning the time from the 4th to the 15th century C.E., and attempt to outline a series of conclusions based on their typology, location, date, and the social position of their bearers in Byzant…
The “Sermon on Law and Grace” in the Context of the Russian-Byzantine Conflict in the Mid-11th Century
The article offers a new interpretation of the ideological content of the Sermon on Law and Grace in the context of the Russian–Byzantine conflict in the mid-11th century. Presented, apparently, in the Tithe Church on March 26, 1049, it contains Yaroslav’s program to strengthen the prestige and independence of the Russian Church. The compilation of the Sermon was entrusted to one of the most educated Eastern Slavs of his time, the princely presby…
The Third Plenum of the CCP Central Committee
The Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee (June 15–18) was one of the central events in China's political life in 2024. The delay for more than six months in holding the plenum increased the sense of growing instability in China's development, caused by the slow economic recovery after the pandemic, as well as the high-profile resignations of Foreign Minister Qin Gang and Defense Minister Liu Shangfu. The technical postponement …
In Kiev, There Were Sitting the Men”
The article analyses the last episode of the internecine war between the sons of the Kiev prince Vladimir Svyatoslavich — the confrontation in 1024—1026 between Yaroslav (“the Wise”) and Mstislav. It has repeatedly become the object of attention of researchers, but many questions still remain controversial and unclear. The main problem is unclearness of the story about these events in the main source — “The Tale of Bygone Years”. According to it,…
Towards Christian Name and Political Status of Rostislav of Tmutarakan
The article deals with the question of the Christian name of Rostislav Vladimirovich the prince of Tmutarakan. The newly found seal of Rostislav Vladimirovich shows that he bore the Christian name Gabriel (in honour of the archangel Gabriel), which came to the Rurikids probably from the Bulgarian Kometopouloi dynasty. The Greek legend on the seal of Rostislav speaks probably about his self-presentation as the ruler of the Greek-speaking territory
Princess Olga and Constantinople
Introduction. The author proposes a new reconstruction of two episodes concerning Princess Olga in the chronicles and Prolog, which allows to clarify the overall picture of the development of the pre-Mongol legend about the baptism of Olga and her trip to Constantinople. Analysis. In the early chronicles, two layers of narrative about Olga’s trip to Constantinople are clearly distinguishable. The original story contained only the relationship bet…
On the Way to a New Formula a of the State Power (The First Session of the 14th National People's Congress, 2023)
The article focuses on political, legal, and state development of the People’s Republic of China from 2018 to the beginning of 2023. Based on the reports from the first session of the new 14th National People's Congress (March 2023), the main performance indicators of the State Council, the NPC Standing Committee, of the Supreme People's Court, and the Supreme People's Procuratorate are explored. The new composition of the 14th National People's …
Marxism is Alive. The 13th World Socialism Forum
The Outside World in China's Strategy after the 20th CPC Congress
Since the beginning of reforms, China's economic development strategy has been aimed at integrating into the existing international economic order and establishing close cooperation, primarily with developed countries. China was able to effectively use the emerging opportunities of economic globalization and became the second economy in the world, unwittingly challenging the international order that emerged after the collapse of bipolarity. The e…
Social Credit System in China
China's emerging nationwide social credit system is aimed at collecting and analyzing data on enterprises and individuals in order to assess the economic and social consequences of their activities, civic qualities, responsibility, and financial reliability. The preventive digital system for regulating public life looks like a continuation of China's social experiments in the second half of the 20th century. However, this time social engineering …
Another Early Evidence of the Rus’
The article discusses the question of the ethnonym Ῥουσ- in the Byzantine literature, attested in the tenth and eleventh centuries, either as part of an adjective, or in sources under Rus’ian influence, and then disappearing until the fifteenth century. In this connec- tion, the question arises whether the ethnonym Ῥούσιος actually existed, as documented by Liutprand of Cremona, but could be explained as an influence of the Latin language. The re…
Competition of Legal Norms in the Russian Church from the 10th to 13th Centuries? Tithe and Weregild
The article discusses two key differences between pre-Mongol Rus’ and Byzantium in the field of church legal institutions. The author shows that the introduction of tithes from princely incomes instead of fixed payments for the churches was provoked by the absence of the Greek hierarchy in Russia at the moment of the consecration of the Kiev Tithe Cathedral in 995–996, as well as by only partially monetary nature of the Old Russian economy and th…
The Role of Archbishop Nifont in the Novgorod Events of 1136
The article analyzes the role of the Archbishop Nifont in the Novgorod events of 1136. The identification of the church of St. Nicholas, consecrated by him, with the Nikolo-Dvorishchensky Cathedral is proved, and the significance of this act for the new Prince Svyatoslav Olgovich is estimated. The article analyzes Nifont's refusal to marry Svyatoslav, showing that the reason for this lay in canonical problems with his and/or his wife’s previous m…
Marxism, the CCP and the new era of Xi Jinping
After the election of Xi Jinping as the General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee (2012), a new stage of transformation began in China, in scale and depth not inferior to the reforms of Deng Xiaoping, in its influence on social development and international significance, probably capable of surpassing them. Since its formation, the CPC has developed in the process of studying from the West, Sinicizing Marxism, adapting it to solving the task…
New Inscriptions on Instrumenta from the Northern Periphery of the Byzantine World
Introduction. Byzantine inscriptions on instrumenta, i.e. portable objects (ceramics, tools, objects of personal piety, etc.), usually attract little attention by researchers. Meanwhile, such inscriptions make it easier to look into the world of an ordinary Byzantine. Analysis. The author publishes (in two cases – anew) seven non-standard inscriptions of this type, found recently or previously unpublished. These are the inscriptions on the phylac…
Moscow-Beijing Eurasian Axis
Over the 20 years that have passed since the signing of the Treaty of Friendship in June 2001, Russian-Chinese relations have become one of the key factors for global development. Despite the active opposition of the West, their importance to world politics is steadily increasing. At bilateral, regional and global levels of interaction Russia and China face serious challenges, but both states invariably manage to find effective responses to them.…
The Final Session of the 13th NPC and Results of China’s State Building during the Last 10 Years
The article examines the issues of state-legal and socio-economic development of the People's Republic of China in 2021, and also analyzes some trends in state-building in the PRC over the past 10 years. Based on the reports presented at the fifth and final session of the National People's Congress of the 13th Convocation (March 2022), the main indicators of the work in 2021 of the State Council, the Standing Committee of the National People's Co…
Notes on the “Antiquities” of Constantinople
This article discusses some antiquities of Constantinople, described in the patriographic texts from the eighth to the tenth centuries. For the first time in Russian, it presents a detailed description and filiation of such texts as: Brief representations from the chronicles, Diegesis of the Great Church, and Patria Constantinopoleos. The exact dating of Παραστάσεις σύντομοι χρονικαί to the mid-eighth century has been proposed. Topographical and …
Turkels – a Turkic Family in the Byzantine Civil Service
Introduction. The paper considers the two Byzantine lead seals of the second half of the 11th century, the owner of which was a translator (ermeneutes) with a non-Christian name Turkeles. Analysis. The correct reading of the owner’s name was possible by comparing the sigillographic texts with the inscription on a silver bucket found in Perm region (Russia). This richly ornamented vessel made in the last third of the 11th – 12th c., belonged, acco…
Synodia. A Rare Type of Religious Community in Inscriptions from the Early Byzantine Pilgrimage Basilica of the Machkhomeri Fortress in Lazica
Introduction. The process of Christianization of the Lazica, poorly presented in written sources, received an important source in the recently found inscriptions from the Machkhomeri fortress near Khobi. Analysis. The inscriptions were discovered during the excavations of a three-nave basilica, built in the 6th c. by a certain Gorgonios in honour of Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebaste. The next benefactor of the church was a certain Theonas, his wife a…
Round table «100th Anniversary of CCP»
Seal of Konstantinos, the Son of the Protoproedros and Exousiokrator of All Alania (ca 1065–1075)
This paper offers a corrected reading of a lead seal excavated at Anakopia which belonged to Konstantinos, the son of the protoproedros and exousiokrator of all Alania. Although the palaeography of the seal dates it to the second half of the eleventh century, the historical context and the title of protoproedros makes the chronology narrow, as 1065–1075. This find can be linked to the Byzantine-Georgian conflict over Anakopia and probably to the …
Ban as a Political Instrument in the Russian Church of the Middle 11th Century New Data about Luka Zhidyata
The article deals with the biography of Luka Zhidyata, the Bishop of Novgorod. The mention of the consecration of St. Sophia of Novgorod by him probably dates back to the “Primary Chronicle”. Information of the chronicles about his three-year suspension and imprisonment in Kiev is compared with the norms of Byzantine canon law. The only rule by which Luka could be subjected to such punishment is a ban for clerics to play dice or communicate with …
The Inscription on a Brick from Grodno (Ps 45
The authors publish a unique inscription with the second half-verse of Psalm 45: 6 on а 12th century brick from the excavations of the “Mernaya izba” on the Castle hill of Hrodna (Grodno; Republic of Belarus). The tradition of writing Psalm 45: 6 in church buildings goes back to the Early Byzantine period and is associated with its “apotropaic” character, which should protect the building from earthquakes. From the middle Byzantine period Psalm 4…
The Turquoise of the Kyzyl-Kum
Turquoise ornaments are common among archeological finds in Central Asia. Turquoise has long been one of the favored gems of the East. This sky-blue stone, with its delicately-emerald cloudiness, has been celebrated by poets, and various legends and beliefs are associated with it. (1) Medieval writers inform us that several turquoise deposits were quarried in Central Asia. The best-known turquoise was from Isfara, Khodjent, Iliak, and a few other…
The Turquoise of the Kyzyl-Kum
Turquoise ornaments are common among archeological finds in Central Asia. Turquoise has long been one of the favored gems of the East. This sky-blue stone, with its delicately-emerald cloudiness, has been celebrated by poets, and various legends and beliefs are associated with it. (1) Medieval writers inform us that several turquoise deposits were quarried in Central Asia. The best-known turquoise was from Isfara, Khodjent, Iliak, and a few other…
The Features of Boris and Gleb Festivals in the Light of Byzantine Tradition
The present paper analyses the liturgical structure of the translation of SS. Boris and Gleb’s relics in 11th–12th centuries. All four feasts had a different structure: a one-day or two-day feast, with or without the consecration of the church. In two of three cases (under Yaroslav the Wise and in 1115), the consecration of the church in Vyshgorod was done next to the very relics of the holy princes themselves. The choice of the feast’s structure…
The Last Will of Metropolitan Constantine I of Kiev and the Kanon “At the Parting of the Soul from the Body”
The article puts forward the suggestion that the mysterious last will of Metropolitan Constantine I of Kiev, in which he ordered that after his death his body should be torn to pieces by dogs instead of receiving a proper burial, was inspired by a very specific literary text. This text is still used in the Orthodox Christian tradition; it is known as the hymnographical kanon “At the Parting of the Soul from the Body.” While nowadays this kanon is…
The “Apocryphal” Inscription from Mangup, Crimea, and Rituals of “Exposing the Thief”
The discovery of a Byzantine bread stamp inscribed with the text of Ps 29:8 in the ruins of Mangup Basilica in Crimea allows the authors of this article to revise the entire tradition of the Byzantine magical and folk “recipes” for revealing a thief; it is this context in which this verse is used in combination with a special bread. Prototypes of these recipes and procedures are attested in the late antique syncretic (pagan-Judeo-Christian) magic…
Bravlin—Brave or Humble
The paper focuses on the name of the barbarian warlord that appears in the Slavic and (recently discovered) Armenian versions of the Life of St. Stephen of Sougdaia as Бравлинъ and Պրաւլիս /Praulis/, respectively. These forms seem to point to Πραῦλις or Μπραῦλις in the lost Greek Vorlage. None of the previous attempts at constructing an etymology of the name—Slavic бран(ъ)ливъ (Russian copies of the Life), Swedish Bråvalla (G. Vernadsky, N. Belya…
“Erinyes and Maenads”. Who Stood at the Cradle of the New Bulgarian Community in 1185–1186
The paper investigates the nature and identity of the “demoniacs” mentioned in Niketas Choniates’ “History” as instrumental in bringing about the anti-Byzantine revolt in Bulgaria, 1185–1186. Until recently, researchers from Bulgaria, Russia, Western Europe and America approached the issue basically along two lines. According to the first, the “demoniacs” were a special group of people differing from everyone else by physical appearance and/or be…
Gothic graffiti from the Mangup basilica
For more than a millennium there have been reports testifying to the presence of Goths in the Crimea. However, until a few years ago, the only evidence of a Gothic or Germanic idiom spoken in the peninsula stems from the list of words recorded between 1560 and 1562 by Ogier de Busbecq. Significant new evidence, however, has become available through the recent discovery of five Gothic graffiti scratched on two reused fragments of a cornice belongi…
The Mid-Byzantine Traditions of Church Architecture on the Southern, Eastern, and Northern Black Sea Shores
Средневизантийские традиции церковного зодчества на южном, восточном и северном берегах Черного моря - Institutional repository of Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N.Yeltsin
The Inscription on a Brick from Grodno (Ps 45
The authors publish a unique inscription with the second half-verse of Psalm 45: 6 on а 12th century brick from the excavations of the “Mernaya izba” on the Castle hill of Hrodna (Grodno; Republic of Belarus). The tradition of writing Psalm 45: 6 in church buildings goes back to the Early Byzantine period and is associated with its “apotropaic” character, which should protect the building from earthquakes. From the middle Byzantine period Psalm 4…
Christian Identity of the Crimean Goths
The newly found Gothic inscriptions from Crimea reopened the question of the Christian identity of the Crimean Goths in its interrelation with the Greek-Byzantine environment. The Mangup graffito I .1 and the Late Medieval inscription from Bakhchysarai both contain the acronymised formula ‘(Saviour) God Jesus’ which we think was a purposeful declaration of the Gothic community’s Orthodox Nicene allegiance. The expanded variant of Ps. 76:15 in the…
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Architecture at the Crossroads of Cultures
Varzahan (modern Ugrak near Bayburt in Turkey) is the completely destroyed church complex located at the junction of cultural worlds: Byzantine and Muslim, Armenian and Kartvelian. Although its churches were known mainly from W. Bachmann’s description and photographs, our recent archival finds (the photographs of N. Okunev’s expedition) allow us to reconstruct the appearance and construction history of the Varzahan churches. For the first time, t…
Theodore Gabras and His Seals
This publication examines the life of Theodore Gabras, one of the highest Byzantine dignitaries in the 1080–1090s. The early stage of his career is uncovered by a miniature from a manuscript residing in St. Petersburg which depicts a scene with ktetores, patrikios, and topoteretes Theodore Gabras and his wife Irene. The similarity of this miniature and an eleventh-century fresco in the Senty Church in Alania (modern Karachay-Cherkessia) indicates…
Turkels – a Turkic Family in the Byzantine Civil Service
Introduction. The paper considers the two Byzantine lead seals of the second half of the 11th century, the owner of which was a translator (ermeneutes) with a non-Christian name Turkeles. Analysis. The correct reading of the owner’s name was possible by comparing the sigillographic texts with the inscription on a silver bucket found in Perm region (Russia). This richly ornamented vessel made in the last third of the 11th – 12th c., belonged, acco…
Synodia. A Rare Type of Religious Community in Inscriptions from the Early Byzantine Pilgrimage Basilica of the Machkhomeri Fortress in Lazica
Introduction. The process of Christianization of the Lazica, poorly presented in written sources, received an important source in the recently found inscriptions from the Machkhomeri fortress near Khobi. Analysis. The inscriptions were discovered during the excavations of a three-nave basilica, built in the 6th c. by a certain Gorgonios in honour of Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebaste. The next benefactor of the church was a certain Theonas, his wife a…
Round table «100th Anniversary of CCP»
Seal of Konstantinos, the Son of the Protoproedros and Exousiokrator of All Alania (ca 1065–1075)
This paper offers a corrected reading of a lead seal excavated at Anakopia which belonged to Konstantinos, the son of the protoproedros and exousiokrator of all Alania. Although the palaeography of the seal dates it to the second half of the eleventh century, the historical context and the title of protoproedros makes the chronology narrow, as 1065–1075. This find can be linked to the Byzantine-Georgian conflict over Anakopia and probably to the …
Ban as a Political Instrument in the Russian Church of the Middle 11th Century New Data about Luka Zhidyata
The article deals with the biography of Luka Zhidyata, the Bishop of Novgorod. The mention of the consecration of St. Sophia of Novgorod by him probably dates back to the “Primary Chronicle”. Information of the chronicles about his three-year suspension and imprisonment in Kiev is compared with the norms of Byzantine canon law. The only rule by which Luka could be subjected to such punishment is a ban for clerics to play dice or communicate with …
The Role of Archbishop Nifont in the Novgorod Events of 1136
The article analyzes the role of the Archbishop Nifont in the Novgorod events of 1136. The identification of the church of St. Nicholas, consecrated by him, with the Nikolo-Dvorishchensky Cathedral is proved, and the significance of this act for the new Prince Svyatoslav Olgovich is estimated. The article analyzes Nifont's refusal to marry Svyatoslav, showing that the reason for this lay in canonical problems with his and/or his wife’s previous m…
Marxism, the CCP and the new era of Xi Jinping
After the election of Xi Jinping as the General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee (2012), a new stage of transformation began in China, in scale and depth not inferior to the reforms of Deng Xiaoping, in its influence on social development and international significance, probably capable of surpassing them. Since its formation, the CPC has developed in the process of studying from the West, Sinicizing Marxism, adapting it to solving the task…
New Inscriptions on Instrumenta from the Northern Periphery of the Byzantine World
Introduction. Byzantine inscriptions on instrumenta, i.e. portable objects (ceramics, tools, objects of personal piety, etc.), usually attract little attention by researchers. Meanwhile, such inscriptions make it easier to look into the world of an ordinary Byzantine. Analysis. The author publishes (in two cases – anew) seven non-standard inscriptions of this type, found recently or previously unpublished. These are the inscriptions on the phylac…
Moscow-Beijing Eurasian Axis
Over the 20 years that have passed since the signing of the Treaty of Friendship in June 2001, Russian-Chinese relations have become one of the key factors for global development. Despite the active opposition of the West, their importance to world politics is steadily increasing. At bilateral, regional and global levels of interaction Russia and China face serious challenges, but both states invariably manage to find effective responses to them.…
The Final Session of the 13th NPC and Results of China’s State Building during the Last 10 Years
The article examines the issues of state-legal and socio-economic development of the People's Republic of China in 2021, and also analyzes some trends in state-building in the PRC over the past 10 years. Based on the reports presented at the fifth and final session of the National People's Congress of the 13th Convocation (March 2022), the main indicators of the work in 2021 of the State Council, the Standing Committee of the National People's Co…
Notes on the “Antiquities” of Constantinople
This article discusses some antiquities of Constantinople, described in the patriographic texts from the eighth to the tenth centuries. For the first time in Russian, it presents a detailed description and filiation of such texts as: Brief representations from the chronicles, Diegesis of the Great Church, and Patria Constantinopoleos. The exact dating of Παραστάσεις σύντομοι χρονικαί to the mid-eighth century has been proposed. Topographical and …
Towards Christian Name and Political Status of Rostislav of Tmutarakan
The article deals with the question of the Christian name of Rostislav Vladimirovich the prince of Tmutarakan. The newly found seal of Rostislav Vladimirovich shows that he bore the Christian name Gabriel (in honour of the archangel Gabriel), which came to the Rurikids probably from the Bulgarian Kometopouloi dynasty. The Greek legend on the seal of Rostislav speaks probably about his self-presentation as the ruler of the Greek-speaking territory
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