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“Novgorod the Great”: the political identity of the Novgorod republic

Pavel V. Lukin · Slověne 7(2), 383–413 · 2018

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Author
Pavel V. Lukin
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DOI 10.31168/2305-6754.2018.7.2.15
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2026-09-01
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Crossref title is “Novgorod the Great”; the subtitle here describes the article's subject.

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DisputedNovgorod's sovereign political community, whose will the veche expressed, was in effect its boyars, so that Novgorod is best called a 'boyar republic'.EstablishedIn Novgorodian usage 'Novgorod the Great' could denote the city, the whole polity, or the body of Novgorodians with full political rights; the phrase appears in Hanseatic documents from at least the 1330s.