The statement by Russian President Vladimir Putin about "Russian Anna", the daughter of "our beloved Prince Yaroslav the Wise" illustrates Russia's desire to "appropriate everything that can be appropriated"; Anna Yaroslavna was a Swede, but "Ukraine has incomparably more rights" than Russia.

This opinion was expressed to the "Observer" by the Russian publicist Alexander Nevzorov.

Answering the question whether Putin's statement is historically illiterate, he remarked: "There is no historical literacy or historical illiteracy, since history is not a science and it does not contain any reliable fact. What is a factually established fact? This is a fact that can be checked. As in chemistry or in physics: we can always check and repeat the ".

"Nevertheless, it is clear that this is still subordination to certain ideological schemes and Russia's desire to appropriate everything that can be appropriated, so the poor deceased of distant centuries are now trying to break evenly," the publicist added..

Nevzorov does not doubt that "this Anna did not have the slightest relation to Muscovy, which did not yet exist, to Russia, which did not yet exist". "There was Kievan Rus, and it appears in all French documents as Anna Kievskaya. The word "Yaroslavna" no one could utter ".

At the same time, the publicist drew attention to the fact that "if somehow to play in the credibility of the annals and sources," Anna Yaroslavna "in general was a Swede" - "her mother was a Swede, and her dad was a pretty clean direct Ryurikovich, That is, the Viking ".

Nevertheless, "in its political status, of course, it belonged to Ukraine, and Ukraine has incomparably more rights to it, because, as you know, Moscow was roaming bears and moors," Nevzorov recalled..

"By the way, I'm not at all sure that this Anna can and should be proud. We absolutely do not understand what kind of girl she was.. At that time interdynamic marriages were popular, but we must understand that it was a girl - a girl who was given to someone else's country, "he said..

For the full version of the commentary by Alexander Nevzorov, listen here:.

As the "Observer" wrote, Russian President Vladimir Putin during a joint press conference with the French president said that Yaroslav the Wise was a "Russian prince". In addition, he remembered his daughter Anna Yaroslavna, who was the queen of France, also assuring that she had a Russian origin.

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