CHRONONYM "RUSSIAN-POLISH WAR 1654-1667" IN IMPERIAL AND SOVIET HISTORIOGRAPHY: FEATURES OF HISTORICAL ONOMASTY

Military operations between the Moscow State and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 50–60s 17th century were designated by different chrononyms: ―Alexei Mikhailovich's war with Poland‖, ―Russian-Polish war‖, ―Thirteen Years' War‖, ―Moscow's war with Poland for Little Russia‖. These onomastic units expressed the polyphony of opinions with which historians, before and after 1917, looked at the events of the middle of the 17th century. Is it necessary in historical science to fix a certain proper name for this war, or historiography may preserve diversity in the description, talking about the same thing? The article expounds the reasons for the ambiguity of all variants of the used chrononyms, with the exception of "The Thirteen Years' War of 1654–1667 between the Moscow state with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth". The importance of the correct use of the chrononym associated with the confrontation between two rival states of the early modern period is substantiated.