It would become the home of three long-lived empires: Kievan Rus’ (862-1242), the Grand ... of the distant Islamic Caliphate and the Byzantine Empire, but it was the nomadic Khazar Khaganate ...

Sviatoslav subjugated a number of tribes, thus significantly expanding the borders of Kievan Rus’ and raising its military and political prestige. However, a clash with the Byzantine Empire ...

To justify his designs on Ukraine, Russian president Vladimir Putin ... Moscow’s religious leaders argued that a transfer of the Byzantine empire had taken place: Moscow was now the third ...

In the years from 882 to 1242 the first and original national state organization of the Russians – the Kievan Russia (not Kyivan Rusia or Kyiv Rus’!) became directly and indirectly subject to ...

they were promoted by the rulers of Kievan Rus as homegrown warrior saints. This is a difficult, densely footnoted academic study that assumes the reader is generally familiar with church history, ...

This week, Ukraine, Russia and Belarus celebrate the 1,025th anniversary of the Christianization of Kievan Rus ... and cultural heir of the Byzantine Empire, Eurasianism allots Russia a messianic ...

The modern nations of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine all claim Kievan Rus' as their cultural ancestors. The Rus'–Byzantine War of ... War between the Swedish Empire and the Czardom of Russia ...

Other Viking adventurers journeyed to Constantinople, the great capital of the Byzantine Empire, to find their ... In 988, Vladimir, a prince of the Kievan Rus, was baptized by a Byzantine ...

laying the foundation for the powerful Kievan Rus. During his rule, Oleg also launched one attack on Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire. DON'T MISS Vikings season 6 release date ...

they were promoted by the rulers of Kievan Rus as homegrown warrior saints. This is a difficult, densely footnoted academic study that assumes the reader is generally familiar with church history, ...