Неизвестно изследване на Григорий Илински за Пространното Методиево житие
Unknown Study by Gregory Ilinsky on Vita Methodii

Summary/Abstract: The article "The word ‘кing’ (краль) in Vita Methodii" is a study by the Russian scholar Gregory Ilinsky, completed on July 30,1930 in Moscow but never published. I found the sheet-proofs of this unknown article by Ilinsky (11 pages) in the BAS Scientific Archive in Sofia (in the archive fund of acad. Stoyan Romansky - Ф. 130 K, 1, a.e.348). The history of Ilinsky's article is reconstructed on the basis of materials kept in different funds of the BAS Scientific Archive (protocols of the sessions of the BAS philological and historical branch, correspondence of Gr. Ilinsky with M. Popruzhenko and St. Romansky, as well as other materials from the partly still uncatalogued archive of St. Romansky that is only partly described). It was established that the article was included in issue № 4 of the first year (1929/1930) of the „Български преглед" {Bulgarian Review), ajournal published by St. Romansky. The issue was never taken from printing-office for financial reasons though it had already been typeset. For the same reasons after issue № 3 of the first year of the journal only issue № 1 of the second year was published with a three-year delay and then the journal ceased to exist. In 1942 St. Romansky made an attempt to publish Ilinsky's study in the „Списание на БАН" (BAS Journal) but to no avail. In the present article I analyse also Ilinsky's opinion about the meaning of the word "king" as well as the most recent special research on the issue conducted by J. Reinhart (2001). The comparison between the two texts shows that even today the opinion of Gr. Ilinsky hasn't lost any of its significance. Therefore his contribution is being published exactly as it was typeset. The analysis of the two standpoints presented in detail in the present article reveals that the problem of the meaning of the word "king" in Vita Methodii could finally find a solution by means of studying all the cases in which the word is used in this important Cyrillo-Methodian text (twice in chapter 9, once in ch. 16 and once in ch. 10 as a derived adjective) under different aspects (linguistic, textological, historical and cultural-historical) since it is impossible to assume that the title "king" has different meanings in the text.

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