SUZDAL LAND IN THE HISTORICAL MEMORY OF THE MEDIEVAL HUNGARIAN NATION

Венгрия в эпоху Арпадов, Древняя Русь, средневековая венгерская хронистика Medieval Hungarian chroniclers tried to keep silent about the stay of their ancestors under the rule of Khazaria and wrote about their ancestors as the strongest people of “Scythia”. The author of the oldest extant “Acts of Hungarians” master P. even described the direct path of the Hungarian tribes from Suzdal to Kiev, bypassing the possession of the khanate. Suzdal is the only placename in medieval Hungarian sources that belongs to Northern Russia. He was well known to the Hungarians before the Embassy, sent by Vsevolod the Great Nest in 1190 to the Hungarian king Вéla III. Perhaps during their stay in the Upper and Middle Don, before the appearance in the Azov (the 9th century) Hungarians raided Suzdal land, and therefore in the historical memory of the Hungarian medieval people preserved the idea that Suzdal is somewhere on the outskirts of Scythia.