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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

It was the mid-10th century AD when Kievan Rus was ruled for the first ... Similarly, in 959, she sent an embassy to the Holy Roman Empire, requesting the appointment of priests and a bishop for the ...

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 ...

In 988 Vladimir accepts Orthodox Christianity and begins conversion of Kievan Rus to the Byzantine rite ... establish the empire of the Golden Horde in southern Russia and the Khan of ...

Kievan Rus’, a huge ancient state of Eastern Slavs ... Christianity mainly due to the close ties Rus’ had with the Byzantine Empire where it was practiced. Some historians argue that it ...

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 ...

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, ...