Daniel Romanovich in the Soviet Historical Imagination: Prince or King

Abstract

The article is devoted to Soviet form of remembering image Daniel Romanovich as one of the "places" of Ukrainian cultural memory. The author was focusing his attention on the medieval practice of perception Daniel title as "Rex Ruthenorum". Determines the ideological transformation by using the image of the King and his denial of Soviet historical policy. Particular emphasis is focused on sustainable awareness stamp of “Prince Daniel Galician" and its implementation in the public mind of certain system images. Ignoring the pattern of image King Daniel among scientists, we seeing the conservation of falsification Soviet historical tradition and it does not allow to fully clarify the role of the coronation in scientific discourse. Image of Daniel King had no right to exist in the Soviet historical science that fully served the ideological needs of the state.