What Stavr Godinovich was punished for

Based on the text of ancient Russian chronicles, birch-bark writings and the folk epic “About the Boyar Stavr”, the author presented the original version of the reason for the arrest of the Novgorod Sotsky Stavr Godinovich by Kyiv Prince Vladimir Vsevolodovich Monomakh. According to the researcher, he became a hostage of the political struggle between the supporters of Prince Mstislav Vladimirovich and the boyar clan of the Gyuratovich Rogovichi in ancient Novgorod.