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Kievan Rus, first East Slavic state. It reached its peak in the early to mid-11th century. Both the origin of the Kievan state and that of the name Rus, which came to be applied to it, remain matters of debate among historians. According to the traditional account presented in The Russian Primary.
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Rus, ancient people who gave their name to the lands of...
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- Rurik Dynasty
Rurik Dynasty, princes of Kievan Rus and, later, Muscovy...
- Khazar
Khazar, member of a confederation of Turkic-speaking tribes...
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Finn, legendary Irish hero, leader of the group of warriors...
- The Russian Primary Chronicle
The Russian Primary Chronicle, medieval Kievan Rus...
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- Constantine Vii Porphyrogenitus
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3 gru 2018 · The Kievan Rus are at the origin of modern-day Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. The Rurik Dynasty ruled for over 700 years from Rurik's founding in 862 to the death of Ivan the Terrible of Russia in 1584.
Kievan Rus peaked in the 10th and 11th centuries under Vladimir I and Yaroslav, becoming eastern Europe’s chief political and cultural centre. At Yaroslav’s death in 1054, his sons divided the empire into warring factions. The 13th-century Mongol conquest decisively ended its power.
1 lip 2020 · The Kievan Rus’ were a powerful people created by Viking invaders who ruled the Slavic tribes around the Baltic Sea and, in a way, became Slavs themselves. The history of the Slavs is a long and ancient tale.
25 lip 2009 · With the rise of the Ukrainian movement in the Russian Empire in the 1840s, the history of Kyivan Rus′ turned into a battleground between followers and opponents of the Slavist Mikhail Pogodin.
The Golden Age of Kyivan Rus´ is a MAPA project that aims to present and describe the artistic and literary endeavors that emerged during that period of almost three centuries and shaped the medieval culture of one of the most successful Slavic polities of the European Middle Ages.
Kievan Rus' was a loose federation in Eastern Europe and Northern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century. Encompassing a variety of polities and peoples, including East Slavic, Norse, Baltic, and Finnic, it was ruled by the Rurik dynasty, founded by the Varangian prince Rurik.
