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Kievan Rus' was a loose federation in Eastern Europe and Northern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century. Encompassing a variety of polities and peoples, including East Slavic, Norse, Baltic, and Finnic, it was ruled by the Rurik dynasty, founded by the Varangian prince Rurik. The modern nations of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine all ...
- Cumans Attack Kiev
History Maps. Kievan Rus. Cumans Attack Kiev ©Zvonimir...
- Great Schism
The Great Schism was the break of communion which occurred...
- Moscow Founded
Moscow is founded by Prince Yuri Dolgoruky, a Russian...
- Creation of The Varangian Guard
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- Vladimir The Great
Vladimir had been prince of Novgorod when his father...
- Prologue
Nevertheless, the close connection between the Rus' and the...
- Cumans Attack Kiev
Mar 26, 2023 · 882 Jan 2 - 1240. Kievan Rus' Kiev, Ukraine. In 882, Kyiv was founded by the Varangian noble Oleh (Oleg), who started the long period of rule of the Rurikid princes. During this time, several Slavic tribes were native to Ukraine, including the Polans, the Drevlyans, the Severians, the Ulichs, the Tiverians, the White Croats and the Dulebes.
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The dynasty that ruled Kievan Rus’ for nearly four hundred years emerged from warring pagan tribes in the area that later became Russia and the Ukraine. After consolidating their power through a series of conquests and alliances, the grand princes of Kiev built an impressive stronghold in this city on the Dnieper River that became the cultural, eco...
The dynasty of Kievan Rus’ began around 862, when one of the many tribes in the area either invited a Varangian (Viking) Rus’ named Rurik (d. c. 879) to rule them or were conquered by force. 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 settlem...
The ruler of Kievan Rus’ was based in Kiev, where the prince’s residence was enclosed in the kremlin(citadel). Dynastic succession was ordered according to the eldest descendant of Rurik, who became prince in Kiev, instead of a line of inheritance that went from father to son. In the earliest years of the empire, the common bond that united its peo...
The rulers of Kievan Rus’ were all descendants of Rurik, but their multiplying branches competed with one another to rule Kiev. In 1097, to quell these divisions, Vladimir II (1053–1125) summoned all the princes to a congress at Lubyech. There, a rota system of succession was agreed upon, which was complex rotation of princely seats anchored by the...
Rurik’s grandson Svyatoslav I (d. 972) greatly expanded Kievan Rus’ territory after he advanced to the throne in 945. His three sons fought for the throne after his death in 972, and the period of war finally concluded with the victory of one of them, Vladimir I(c. 956–1015), in 980, who introduced Christianity to Kievan Rus’. This was Vladimir’s a...
Kiev did not reemerge as a significant metropolis until the nineteenth century, but the namesake empire it once anchored was the first important political formation in the lands of the Eastern Slavs. The descendants of Rurik continued to rule over various parts of this region, including Moscow, and the term grand prince came into later use to signi...
Sep 27, 2020 · The expansion and shifting borders of Kievan Rus’ become apparent when looking at this map, which includes the two centers of power in Novgorod and Kiev. Rurik died in 879 and his successor, Oleg, continued the Varangian Rus’ expansion in 882 by taking the southern city of Kiev from the Khasars and establishing the medieval state of Kievan ...
Dec 14, 2020 · The date for the dynasty’s founding is 862 AD, when Rurik headed the important trading center of Ladoga (Staraya). Rurik founded the town of Novgorod in that same year. He came to the lands of the Slavs apparently at their own behest, to rule over them.
Apr 8, 2022 · Let's retrace on maps the Russian Empire history, from the end of the Rurik Dynasty in 1598 to the fall of the Romanov dynasty in 1917.
Growth of Russia between 1547 and 1725. The steppe and forest-steppe of Ukraine and southern Russia is good agricultural land, but it was traditionally held by pastoral nomads. Any state that could drive off the nomads and fill the land with tax-paying peasants would expand its power enormously. During the period 1500–1800, this region was ...
