THE IMAGE OF VARANGIANS IN THE ANCIENT MINIATURES OF RADZIVILL CHRONICLE
The Article is devoted to the display of Varangians in the miniatures of the Radziwill chronicle and a number of other manuscripts of old Russian time. The features and nature of the work of miniaturists of the middle ages with the actual material, their special symbolic "language" and its display on the pages of the chronicle allow us to consider the miniatures as an important historical source. Miniaturist's attention to the details of weapons, clothing, clear ethnic gradation in the image of hats, especially military helmets, allow us to analyze the view of ancient miniaturists and chroniclers on the ethnic nature of the Varangians.