In this documentary, we look at the origins of the Kievan Rus. The Vikings who assailed the shores of Britain and France were ...

Commemorations are taking place in Ukraine to mark the 1,025th anniversary of the conversion to Christianity of Kievan Rus, the medieval ... while Ukrainian and Russian banners on our ships ...

founder of Kievan Rus—and ending with the Vladimir currently residing inside the Kremlin,” Walker wrote. Today, some of the old empire seems to be coming back in the form of a scarlet banner ...

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 ...

The Imperial Russian army created by Tsar Peter I (the Great ... the cap’s design was modeled on the ancient helmet of Kievan Rus’. Intended to inspire the troops through association with ...

This storyline sees him swept in to the empire of the Kievan Rus, which Oleg himself founded ... Prior to Oleg’s army moving in, these areas were thought to be populated by eastern Slavic ...

It was the mid-10th century AD when Kievan Rus was ruled for the first time by a woman ... Igor personally led a punitive expedition with a vastly superior army, forcing the Drevlians to comply. It ...

1019: Yaroslav the Wise prevails in a war, merging cities between the Baltic and Black Seas into a unified political state, later known as Kievan Rus ... by the Soviet army; St. Sophia’s ...

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 ...