Father of Nations, Wolf–Prince, Murdered Bishop: Mikhail Tikhomirov and the 1068 Uprising in Kyiv

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Abstract The article presents the views of Soviet historian Mikhail Nikolaevich Tikhomirov (1893–1965) on the 1068 uprising in Kyiv, in his book, Peasant and Urban Uprisings in Russia, XI–XIII Centuries. It asks the question how the Stalinist cultural matrix affected Tikhomirov’s research identity and how it metaphorized his scholarly narratives. It traces the formation of the researcher’s methodology, which he intended to demonstrate the emergence of revolutionary processes in eleventh-century Rus’.