Igina, Yu. F. On dynastic helmets, chichaks and caps: in response to S. N. Bogatyrev’s article «The helmet of Ivan the Terrible in the context of the court culture»

This article continues the discussion about the helmet of Ivan the Terrible, opened up by the author in the article «The Casus of the helmet of Ivan the Terrible: introducing the problem». The author sheds light on the new facts about the object in question, clarifies some previously stated arguments and suppositions as well as responses to the comments made by the author’s main opponent S. N. Bogatiyrev, whose article «The helmet of Ivan the Great in the context of the court culture», published in  the last issue, reflects his viewpoint. The author takes issue with the main argument of S. Bogatiyrev’s hypothesis that the helmet of Ivan the Terrible is related to «the dynastic helmets of the heirs», which date back to the time of  Ivan II Ivanovich the Fair as well as to the Mongol and Turkiс traditions of the representation of the supreme power. According to the author, this supposition is based on the misinterpreted similarity between the words «chichak» and «shishak» in the Russian medieval studies, which should be reconsidered in the light of the arguments of  turkologists that  the word «chichak»  does not denote a helmet, but a piece of jewellery in the shape of a flower. The author also doubts the rightfulness of perceiving the helmet of Ivan the Terrible in the same way as the helmet of tsarevich Ivan from the Kremlin Armoury as the helmet from Stockholm was not a child’s helmet and did not have any dynastic symbolic significance. The author claims that the decoration of the helmet is not authentic and presumes that it may not have belonged to Ivan the Terrible and such attribution may be no more than a «legend». The main notion of the article is that the helmet of Ivan the Terrible is a unique phenomenon for the Moscovite political tradition which is yet to be interpreted convincingly.

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