Abstract:

In the article the evolution of the image of Prince Dmitry Donskoy in the Soviet historical science of the 1920s-1940s is considered. A conclusion is made about the significant influence on this process of drastic changes in the ideology of the Soviet state of that time.

Keywords: Dmitry Donskoy, Soviet ideology, proletarian internationalism, Soviet historiography, Mikhail Nikolayevich Pokrovsky