The Place of the 14th Century in Ukrainian History: 2nd Conversation with Serhiy Olefir (17.10.2022)
The second conversation between Vitaliy Dribnytsia and Serhiy Olefir on the place of the 14th century in Ukrainian history — the fate of the Ukrainian lands after the Mongol invasion, their incorporation into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland, and the continuity of the Rus’ elite. The video’s audio is problematic (the auto-captions are at times heavily distorted), so only clearly reproducible points are taken.
Key moments
- 14:23 Until the mid-13th century there existed a Rus' state; with the arrival of the Mongols, Lithuania, Poland, and Muscovy appear on the maps, and Ukraine "loses its state"
- 17:01 The elite (including the Rurikids) did not vanish — it began serving other feudal lords; this provides continuity through the 14th–16th centuries
- 39:44 Museum labels: the Soviet "Russocentric" description of the formation of a "centralized state" was rewritten, replacing "Russian" with "Ukrainian"
- 47:42 In the second half of the 14th century the Ukrainian lands entered the Lithuanian-Rus' state and the Kingdom of Poland