1) Ipat. years. pp. 56-57. Nikonov. Lt. ed. Imperial Academician Sci. Sib, 1167, part 1, p. 95, under 990, where8 it is said that St. Vladimir sent the philosopher Mark the Macedonian to the Volga Bodgars to convert them to Christianity, about the failures of this mission, about the arrival of four Bulgarian princes to Kyiv and the baptism them here. It is not appropriate to dwell on the question of the degree of reliability of these findings here.
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3) Nikonov. 18t., part 2, pp. 362-363; Tver Collection, Sibirsk. 1863, pp. 354 et seq.; Tatishcheva. History of Rosoiskaya, part 3, p. 76.
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Vala 06a of the people, was the cause of their clashes. Sometimes minor circumstances caused these clashes. As can be seen, for example, from the agreement concluded in 1229 between the Bulgarians and the Suzdal land, the war that preceded it was caused by misunderstandings that arose between “Russian and Bulgarian fishermen, perhaps also some disputes over trade duties.” It is also clear that among Rus' there were people who were not averse to making money at the expense of foreign merchants and carried out robbery along the Volga and Ok. This, with a high probability, explains the war between the Bulgarians and Russia in 1184. Some free people from the Ryazan land began to rob the Bolgar merchants along the Volga and ruin the Bulgarian villages and towns along its banks. The Bulgarian government twice complained to Veevolod of Suzdal, who, although he issued orders to capture the robbers, did not do anything decisive. The Bulgarians, withdrawn from the territory, decided to act on their own to protect their trade interests and, with significant forces across the Volga and Oka, as well as by land, appeared in the Murom-Ryazan region and put them to ruin 2). The pressure was so strong that...
Veevod was forced to request the help of the Chernihiv prince.
Svyatoslav Vesvolodovich. The campaign undertaken by the united forces of several Russian princes was successful. The Russians went down the Volga below the confluence of the Kama into it, then landed on the shore and besieged the Great City, under the walls of which peace was concluded. But it is not these minor incidents that constitute the essence of the struggle between the Bulgarians and Russia. Such misunderstandings could have ended peacefully. We must understand the basis of the struggle between the Bulgarians and Russia were equally persecuted by their tsfl.. Bulgars, both in political and in commercial-industrial relations shesheshah, it was important to own the mouths of the river. Kama and Oka. The first they owned was the viol. The mouth of the river was also in their power. Vyatka. But Bulgaria could exist quite safely only if the colonizer moved as far as possible along the banks of these rivers to the wild and the wild. LVlo is that the upper reaches of these rivers are approaching the system of the Holy Dvina, which Bulgaria could always expect when attacking along the Vyatka and KamV, since the Volga, in turn approaching the S. Dvina, made it possible for Rus' to emerge from the lands of Novgorod and Suzdal
‚) See the link above. *,.Ipat. l%t., p.423; Laurel. l%t., pp. 369-370. and East. Ros., part Sh. pp. 248-249.
penetrate into the very center of Bulgaria from the north. Let's not forget that the trade route to the south is from Bulgaria. land, to Eev and. Visania walked through the Volga, from the Oka to its upper reaches, then the river. Forest. Sll. For the Bulgarians, it was not enough to have the mouth of the Oka; in their cake shops. It was in their interests to advance their colonization as far as possible along the banks of this river and, perhaps, to take possession of the region of the upper Desna. But, in turn, Rus', p. time immemorial, having begun its colonization to the east along the river. VolgV and. from. region of the river Lesny to the northeast along the Oka River, sought to capture and secure the Volga region of the country. So that the Bulgarians and Rus' can achieve this. the goals of the two opposite sides, they previously needed to colonize, sub-. to repair the 6©v06th power of habitation along the shores of the Volga and Oka rivers. tribes.