It was the mid-10th century AD when Kievan Rus was ruled for the first time by a woman, appointed as regent on behalf of her three-year-old son. She was the one who defeated the Drevlians, a Slavic ...

From Vladimir the Great to Vladimir Putin, the Origins of a Contested Legacy in Russia and Ukraine Martyn Whittock, a ...

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 ...

It would become the home of three long-lived empires: Kievan Rus’ (862-1242), the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1251-1795), and the Grand Duchy (later Tsardom ...

Throughout its long history, from its formation as the medieval state Kievan Rus' in the 9th century to the Russian Federation as we know it today, Russia has seen not only glorious victories ...

According to legend, this is where Vladimir the Great, leader of the medieval state of Kievan Rus, converted to Orthodox Christianity. “But it’s not just that somebody was baptized there ...