In the new edition of the textbook “The World Around” for the fourth grade, published by the publishing house “Obrazovanie”, several mentions of Kyiv were removed from the sections of the history of Kievan Rus.
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This was reported by Mediazona, which reviewed several pages of the new version of the textbook and compared them with the 2021 version.
The old edition said that the chronicle “The Tale of Bygone Years” was written by the monk of the Kiev-Pechersk Monastery Nestor. In the new version, Nestor became just a monk without specifying the place of service.
Mediazona also noted that the 2021 version of the textbook said that Prince Vladimir baptized all the people in Kyiv, while the new version said in the capital. The phrase “After the death of Oleg, Prince Igor began to rule in Kyiv” also changed. Now it sounds like this: “After the death of Oleg, Prince Igor began to rule Russia.”
The textbook on the history of Russia for the sixth grade (2016 version) says:
The year 882, when Oleg united Novgorod and Kyiv, many historians call the conditional date of the formation of the Old Russian state.
In the 2023 edition it is written differently:
Gradually, the dynasty of princes who traced their family to Rurik acquired the greatest importance. With his call in 862 to Novgorod, the formation of the country of Rus’ is associated.
“Mediazona” notes that the new edition of the textbook “The World Around” has been sent to print and it has not yet gone on sale. Journalists also became aware of the preparation of methodological materials, which specifies the role of Kyiv in the history of Russia. According to a source in the Obrazovanie publishing house, the training manuals will go to schools by the end of spring.
In April 2022, Mediazona, citing the editors of Obrazovanie, reported that the management of the publishing house issued an unspoken order to minimize references to Ukraine and Kyiv in Russian school textbooks.
According to the editors, they began to “cleanse” Ukraine from textbooks after 2014, trying to remember as little as possible. The publication wrote that after February 24, the editors had to cross out about 15% of the texts.
Source: Racurs
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