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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, ...
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 ...
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 ...