The article analyzes the opposition of the way of life of Polans to wild life in the forests of other Slavic tribes, which is carried out by the author of the Primary Chronicle. It is noted that the hierarchy between tribes living in different natural environments reflected in the eyes of the chronicler not the degree of development of culture, but the ability of society to come closer to fulfilling the duties assigned by God to a person. In this light, the space of Kiev stands out as a sacred territory, to which the rest of the Slavs owe their “humanization”. And the forest marks, on the one hand, the territories subject to Christianization, on the other hand, the boundaries of the Khazar power in the Slavic lands. It is noted that the variant of the opposition “wild-domestic” presented in the Chronicle was closely related to the tasks of forming the ideology of a political decentralized civilization.
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