In this documentary, we look at the origins of the Kievan Rus. ... In the 9th century, the Caliphate’s wealthy markets teemed with luxury goods. These coins found their way to Sweden, ...

11th century - Kievan Rus reaches its peak under Yaroslav the Wise (grand prince 1019-1054), with Kyiv becoming eastern Europe's chief political and cultural centre. ...

This happened in the mid-10th century after a visit to Emperor Constantine VII. Both the Primary Chronicle and the Book of Ceremonies, which details the etiquette of the Constantinople court, as well ...

Kiev Pechersk Lavra (Kiev Cave Monastery) was one of the first monasteries established in Kievan Rus’, also under the reign of Yaroslav I in the mid-11th century.

With Vikings Valhalla season 2, Netflix turns its historical drama into an epic 11th century road-trip movie . ... what happens when no one in Kievan Rus’ cares that he’s prince of Norway?

Ivan III (1440-1505), his son Vasily III (1478-1533) and his grandson Ivan IV, known as Ivan the Terrible (1530-1584) were the most successful gatherers of the land of the Rus in its initial phase ...

Devastating raids by the Pechenegs, a nomadic Turkic people, plagued early Kievan Rus’. In the 11th century, the archbishop Theophylact of Bulgaria wrote the following about them: “Their ...

The Kievan Rus later collapsed under the Mongol invasion in the 13th century. This is the area which Ivar finds himself in during the latest series of Vikings, encountering the brutal Oleg. Trending ...

11th century - Kievan Rus reaches its peak under Yaroslav the Wise (grand prince 1019-1054), with Kyiv becoming eastern Europe's chief political and cultural centre. ...