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The Rus ', [a] also known as Russes, [2] [3] were a people in early medieval Eastern Europe. [4] The scholarly consensus holds that they were originally Norsemen, mainly originating from present-day Sweden, who settled and ruled along the river-routes between the Baltic and the Black Seas from around the 8th to 11th centuries AD.
Russians. The Russians ( Russian: русские, romanized : russkiye) are an East Slavic ethnic group indigenous to Eastern Europe, who share a common Russian ancestry, culture, and history. Russian, the most spoken Slavic language, is the shared mother tongue of the Russians; Orthodox Christianity has been their majority religion since the ...
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- The Primary Chronicle & Early Kings
- Vladimir The Great & Yaroslav The Wise
- Kievan Rus in Vikings & Legacy
The Russian Primary Chronicle was probably completed by c. 1113 at Kiev and was once attributed to the monk Nestor (c. 1056-1114) but is now thought to be a compilation of earlier works possibly edited by Nestor. The earliest surviving manuscript dates from 1377 with editorial notes substantiating the earlier date of the work. The Chronicleis regul...
Olga abdicated in favor of Sviatoslav I c. 963 and retired to Kiev to spend the rest of her life in domestic duties. Sviatoslav I quickly began a course of military campaigns even greater than those of Oleg and Igor to expand his territory and control traderoutes. He conquered Khazaria first, which had long been a rival power, and then the Volga Bu...
Kievan Rus was featured in Season 6 of the popular TV series Vikings in 2019 with a focus on the recurring character of Oleg the Prophet (played by Russian actor Danila Kozlovsky). Vikingsregularly compressed or combined historical events with some poetic license and the show's depiction of Oleg and various events in the region follows this same co...
- Joshua J. Mark
Vyazemsky of Vyazma. Yeletsky of Yelets. The Rurik dynasty, [a] also known as the Rurikid or Riurikid dynasty, as well as simply Rurikids or Riurikids, [1] was a noble lineage allegedly founded by the Varangian prince Rurik, who, according to tradition, established himself at Novgorod in the year 862. [2] [3] [4] The Rurikids were the ruling ...
Mar 8, 2022 · 8 March 2022. Russian defence ministry. Maj-Gen Gerasimov, deputy commander of the 41st Russian Army, is reported to have died. A senior Russian military commander has been killed in a...
Mar 25, 2022 · The Rus people were the ancestors of contemporary Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians. Putin, like many Russians, considers that these three nations are one, with Ukrainians and Belarusians ...
Mar 17, 2022 · How many Russian servicemen have been killed in Ukraine? It is a criminal offence in Russia to report anything other than the official figures. According to information released by Russia's...
