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On Rurik’s death, Oleg and Igor moved the capital of the Rus to Kiev, founding the kingdom of the Kievan Rus. Igor ascended the throne in 913, according to the Chronicle. He was immediately forced to subdue a rebellion of the Drevlyans’s, one of Kiev’s eastern Slavic clients who now refused to pay tribute.
Aug 11, 2021 · Once upon a time in the Middle Ages in Eastern Europe, there was a federation of Slavic and Finno-Ugric peoples called Kievan Rus’. It covered parts of today’s Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine.
Apr 22, 2013 · Further genetic studies seem to indicate the existence of two major haplogroups among modern Rurikids: the descendants of Vladimir II Monomakh (Monomakhoviches) and some others are of N1c1 group (130 people or 68%), while the descendants of a junior prince from the branch of Oleg I of Chernigov (Olgoviches) and some others (total 45 peoples or ...
Later, the Khazars adopted Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, learned Hebrew and Slavic, and became settled in cities and towns thruout the north Caucasus and Ukraine. The Khazars had a great history of ethnic independence extending approximately 800 years from the 5th to the 13th century. The earliest history of the Khazars in southern Russia ...
The Varangian Rus’ were a mix of Slavs and Scandinavians living near Russia’s present-day border with Finland. The tribe in question lived at Ladoga, a settlement near the lake of the same name in northern Russia. Rurik quickly moved to secure Novgorod, an important trading city, and by 882 his successor, Oleg (d. c. 912), had seized Kiev.
The Galician-Volhynian Chronicle notes only the facts pertaining to the relationship of the Chernigov princes to Daniel and Vasilko Romanovich: “Mikhail˝ zhe ne pokaza pravdy voz dobrodean´e Danilou zhe i Vasilkou, no proide zemliu ego, i poslav˝ posla ide v˝ Kiev˝, i zhiviashe pod˝ Kievom˝ vo ostrove, a s(y)n˝ ego ide v Chernigov ...
In 882, a Viking prince named Oleg seized power in Kiev, which he then proclaimed the “mother of Russian cities”. In doing so, he unified the Slav dwellings scattered across a vast area that would then become known as the “Kievan Rus’”. Oleg established friendly relations with the nearby Byzantium Empire and defeated everyone who ...
