Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavovich - author of "The Tale of Igor's Campaign"

AT sources that have survived to our time and in the historiography dedicated to the immortal poem about Igor's campaign, nowhere directly refers to either the author or the time of writing.

For more than 200 years that have passed since the publication of the text of the monument by Count A.I. Musin-Pushkin, researchers expressed dozens of different points of view and assumptions about who was the author of the poem and when it was written. So, for example, most researchers believe that "The Tale of Igor's Campaign" was written by someone from the entourage of Prince Igor Svyatoslavich[1].

Among the authors of the poem were the names of Prince Igor himself (N.V. Charlemagne, I.I. Kobzev, V.A. Chivilikhin), the scribe Timofey, the “verbal” singer Mitusa, the boyar Pyotr Borislavich, the Chernigov governor Olstin Oleksich, the “merciful” Svyatoslav III, singer Khodyna, Prince Vladimir Yaroslavich of Galicia and many others.

The time of creation of the "Word" was determined in different ways.[2].So, most historians and philologists rightly believed that the work was genuine and was written shortly after the return of Prince Vladimir Igorevich, the son of the hero of the Lay, from the Polovtsian captivity, in the summer-autumn of 1187: in the text of the monument, the Galician prince Yaroslav Osmomysl is mentioned as alive (d. 1.10.1187).

Seventeen-year-old Prince Vladimir really returned home with his young wife two years after the campaign. Prince Igor with his wife and his second cousin Vladimir Svyatoslavich, Prince of Chernigov, were invited to a fair feast on the occasion of the wedding of Vladimir and Yarsylu at the headquarters of Khan Khondzhak in Alabuga. During the feast, the Bulgarian poet Gabdulla Ulush sang a laudatory song in honor of the newlywed called “Namei Yarsylu Khiri”, i.e. "Song of Maiden Yarsylu"[3]. In it, he glorified the beauty and extraordinary virtues of the newlywed, as well as the power, wealth and glory of her father, inal (judge) Deremely Khondjak. But Prince Igor and his brother Vsevolod got a lot of critical words and even abuse. Both princes are characterized only from the negative side, for example: