IMAGE OF THE TYRANT AND IDEAL GOVERNOR IN OLD RUSSIAN POLITICAL AND LEGAL LITERATURE OF THE 12TH CENTURY
The article is devoted to the study of the images of the tyrant and the ideal ruler in the Old Russian political and legal literature of the late 11th-12th centuries. Old Russian thinkers in their works of that era, as a rule, did not use the term "tyrant", preferring to disclose the key characteristics of "tyranny" on the basis of the apology of the image of the "ideal prince". In this connection, the idea of a "good tsar and evil boyars" gained wide acceptance in the ancient Russian political doctrine of that time. The ideal of the "righteous prince" in Russian political literature intersects in many ways with the Byzantine notions of the moral image and the duty of the ruler. One of the key monuments of the early political and legal thought of Ancient Rus, The Tale of Bygone Years, contains a number of interesting ideas concerning the study of the images of both the "tyrant" and the ideal prince. It is worth noting that the views of the author of the work - Nestor the chronicler - largely correlated with the public opinion of that era. If the key marker of Nestor's works is the study of the inversion of the role of the Russian state in the then "global world" and international relations, due to the adoption of Christianity, in the era of Vladimir Monomakh, the attention of representatives of the intellectual elite of Ancient Rus is almost entirely "riveted" by "internal" problems, in connection With which, the prince himself, in the first place, is occupied by the social problems of the Old Russian society and the questions of the settlement of princely feuds, which he considers in close connection with the pr Bloem moral aims of an individual through the prism of the religious legitimation of personal and social existence.