Historiography of the great prince Dmitry Ivanovich’s visit to the Holy Trinity hegumen Sergius before the Kulikovo Battle

Abstract

This article deals with the recently questioned historicity of the visit by the Grand Duke of Moscow Dmitri Ivanovich to the Trinity Lavra hegumen Sergius before the Battle of Kulikovo. Sources reporting this event contain a number of inaccuracies and misunderstandings, which prompted some researchers to question the reliability of the above events, and in certain cases directly deny them. Of course, the posing of questions in such a manner is favorable for historical science, since it encourages researchers to take a more thorough approach to the study of the most important pages of Russian history. In this article, an attempt is made to consider the arguments of the two sides and, supplementing it with some independent conclusions, give an answer to the question of the reliability of the events that accompanied the Kulikovo battle.