The dispute of Poroshenko and Putin about the nationality of Princess Anna Yaroslavna comments on Professor Zubov

Andrey Zubov

Professor, head of the history of the University of Novaya Gazeta

-Ha ha ha ... it's just funny. It is clear that in the days of Yaroslav the Wise and his daughter there was neither Russia nor Ukraine, but there was an ancient Russian state. This is quite clear!

We can talk about Russia and Ukraine the earliest - a hundred years after the Mongol invasion. When in 1362 the Lithuanians drove the Mongols from the territory of today's Ukraine and freed it in this way - the formation of a kind of West Russian nation begins. And before that, it is impossible to talk about this - it was a single community.

Therefore, this is a dispute between two ignoramuses, simply put. Yes, Princess Anna belongs to Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus equally.

The dispute of the Slavs among themselves

For the second day, Kyiv and Moscow are in absentia to argue in absentia about who, nevertheless, belongs to Princess Anna Yaroslavna, the youngest daughter of the Kyiv prince Yaroslav the Wise.

It was the first to mention Vladimir Putin in a response after the speech of French President Emmanuel Macron. Macron called Peter I "a symbol of Russia's openness to Europe." Putin said: relations between countries began with Anna Yaroslavovna, the daughter of Prince Yaroslav the Wise.

“The enlightened French public knows about the Russian Anna - the queen of France; The youngest daughter of our Grand Duke Yaroslav the Wise was the wife of Henry I and made a significant contribution to the development of France, being one of the founders of at least two European dynasties - Bourbon and Valois - one of whom still rules in Spain, ”Putin said.

The next day, President Petro Poroshenko responded to the Ukrainians in a public appeal to this statement. Commenting on the EU Association with Ukraine as a “return to the family”, the president announced that Putin “in front of the whole Europe” tried to steal Kiev’s Kiev from Ukrainian history yesterday - to Russian (video from 1:16).

If the intonation and the grin with which Petro Poroshenko mentioned the episode with Anna Yaroslavnoye also allowed it to be considered a joke, then after connecting the Ukrainian, and then the Russian Foreign Ministry, the discussion reached a new level.

In Ukraine, they hinted that during the reign of Anna Kyiv, there was still a forest on the site of Moscow.

The Russian official account replied that even before the coronation of Anna Yaroslavna in Veliky Novgorod there was already the Cathedral of St. Sophia.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavel Klimkin wrote on Twitter that he will then be considered Ukrainian Alexander Pushkin, because he inspired Crimea and Odessa for many works.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, could not help but answer this replica.

“Pavlo, you have not figured out Gogol yet. Where are you to grab for Alexander Sergeyevich. And exclusively for your understanding: when Crimea inspired Pushkin, Khrushchev was not born yet, ”she wrote on Facebook.

It seems to be continued.