READ MORE Vikings season 6: Ivar the Boneless’ death revealed as fans spot clue Rurik was the founder of the Rurik dynasty, which ruled the Kievan Rus’ and its successor states – the Grand ...

Given that the conversion of Kievan Rus established the Orthodox foundations for future Russian and Ukrainian states ... (Stalin’s successor, Nikita Khrushchev, transferred Crimea to from ...

Hence, Kiev’s official historical narrative now claims that Kievan Rus’ was a proto-Ukrainian state due to the simple fact that contemporary Ukrainians occupy the core territory of the ancient ...

A chronology of key events: 9th century - Founding of Kievan Rus, the first major East Slavic ... 1864-65 - Kazakh steppes and Central Asian Muslim states annexed. 1877-78 - Russian-Turkish ...

Is Kievan Rus a real place? In the sixth series of Vikings, Ivar the Boneless has travelled East to the Kievan Rus after losing the throne of Kattegat to his brother, Bjorn Ironside (Alexander ...

To justify his designs on Ukraine, Russian president Vladimir Putin has repeatedly referred to what Russians call the Kievan Rus. He sees this Orthodox medieval state which centred around the ...