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How Swedish Vikings Founded the Kievan Rus

Long before Ukraine was a modern nation, Viking warriors from Sweden laid the foundations of a medieval Slavic state—the ...
In December of 1240, the Mongol Empire unleashed hell upon the capital of Kievan Rus’. Under the command of Batu Khan, ...
An 1899 illustration of Prince Oleg, leader of the Rus Vikings Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images The accuracy of this is debatable as other elements of the Primary Chronicle, which was ...
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 ...
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. Yaroslav the Legislator 1019-1054, by Boris ...