GIORGIO DOLGORNKI. — First Prince of Suzdal, a city in central Russia, who lived in the 11th century. With him, alongside Kiev—the principal city of the Kingdom of Rus—Moscow begins to exist as a settlement, which later became the capital of modern Russia. The original city in 1047 comprised only part of the present-day Kremlin. G. consistently supported the Byzantineophile tendencies in opposition to Prince Iziaslav of Kiev, who, driven by autonomist tendencies, had the monk Clement of Smolensk elected for that metropolis without further recourse to the Byzantine patriarch. The Byzantineophile tendency became traditional in the principality of Moscow and thus throughout all ancient Russia proper.
BIBL.: A. M. Ammann, Storia della Chiesa russa e dei paesi limitrofi, Torino 1948 (cf. indice). Alberto M. Ammann