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Dec 6, 2023 · Kyivan Rus’ emerged as a powerful confederation of city-states during the second half of the ninth century in Eastern Europe, where rivers helped link the Baltic Sea with the Black Sea and facilitated trade with Constantinople, the wealthy capital of the Byzantine Empire. The capital of Kyivan Rus’ was Kyiv on the Dnieper River, which is ...
He was born in 958, the youngest of three sons, to the Rus’ king Sviatoslav. He ascended to the position of Prince of Novgorod around 969 while his oldest brother, Yaropolk, became the designated heir to the throne in Kiev. Sviatoslav died in 972, leaving behind a fragile political scene among his three sons.
Mar 4, 2024 · Commemorated on March 4. Holy Prince Basil of Rostov belonged in lineage to the Suzdal Monomashichi, famed in Russian history.
Rurik’s successor Oleg (d. 912) conquered Kiev (c. 882) and established control of the trade route extending from Novgorod, along the Dnieper River, to the Black Sea.
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The name “Kievan Rus’” refers both to the state and its people. Kievan Rus’ was sometimes a trading partner and other times an enemy of the Byzantine Empire. But in 987, Prince Vladimir I of Kiev, ruler over Kievan Rus’ from 980–1015, formed an alliance with the Byzantine emperor Basil II (reigned 976–1025), converting from ...
Founded in 1364, the convent was built entirely of wood until the early 16 th century, when it drew the favor of Moscow’s Grand Prince Basil III. With his support, work began in 1510 on the...
Kievan Rus'. Kievan Rus′ was the early, mostly East Slavic state dominated by the city of Kiev from about 880 C.E. to the middle of the twelfth century. People speaking East Slavic dialects were known from the ninth century as Rus (also referred to as ancient Russians or Ruthenians ). Later, they diverged into three major nations—modern ...
