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The Rus', also known as Russes, were a people in early medieval Eastern Europe. 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. In the 9th century, they formed the state of Kievan Rusʹ, where the ruling ...
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Most western scholars believe them to be a group of Varangians. According to the Povest vremennykh let or Russian Primary Chronicle of Rus', compiled in about 1113 AD, the Rus' had relocated from Pomerania. Their leader was named Rurik. Later, Rurik's relative Oleg captured Kiev, founding Kievan Rus'. The descendants of Rurik were the ruling dynast...
It was at this point in history the area of Kiev grew and expanded. The Kievan state lasted about a hundred years, until about 972. Between 839 and 1043 the Balto Slavs combined with the South Slavic peoples to form a new society. The name Rus' came to mean those combined peoples. In 860 the Byzantine Patriarch Photios I described a people who were...
The word "Rus' is found in the slavonic languages. This parallels with Latin: Rhos, Greek: Rös and Arabic: Rüs. Words used to describe Pomeranians in Russia or the east were Veneti or Rujan (in medieval Latin literature known as Ruzzi ). The Finnish: Venäjä, Estonian: Vene, Karelian: Veneä) denoting Russia
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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 ...
- 622,445 (2016), (Russian ancestry, excluding Russian Germans)
- 938,500 (2011), (including Russian Jews)
- 40,000 (2019)
The Romanov dynasty ruled Russia until 1917. Russia expanded a lot during the 17th century, including the first Russian colonization of the Pacific in the mid-17th century, the Russo-Polish War (1654–67), and the Russian conquest of Siberia. Russia gained most of its territory from Siberia. [68]
Olga ( Church Slavonic: Ольга; [2] [a] Old Norse: Helga; [3] c. 890–925 – 11 July 969) [4] was a regent of Kievan Rus' for her son Sviatoslav from 945 until 960. Following her baptism, Olga took the name Elenа. [b] She is known for her subjugation of the Drevlians, a tribe that had killed her husband Igor.
- 945–960
- Sviatoslav the Brave
Dec 3, 2018 · Definition. Kievan Rus (862-1242) was a medieval political federation located in modern-day Belarus, Ukraine, and part of Russia (the latter named for the Rus, a Scandinavian people). The name Kievan Rus is a modern-day (19th century) designation but has the same meaning as 'land of the Rus,' which is how the region was known in the Middle Ages.
Kievan Rus', [a] [b] also known as Kyivan Rus ', [c] [7] [8] was a state and later an amalgam of principalities [9] in Eastern and Northern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century. [10] The name was coined by Russian historians in the 19th century. Encompassing a variety of polities and peoples, including East Slavic, Norse, [11] [12 ...
