Long before Ukraine was a modern nation, Viking warriors from Sweden laid the foundations of a medieval Slavic state—the Kievan Rus. Drawn east by silver from the Islamic Caliphate, these ...

Some also argue in Ukraine that Russia has nothing to do with the history of Kievan Rus’. Russia is portrayed as some Northern country that originated around the middle of the 12 th century. It ...

The Kievan Rus state collapsed under the Mongol invasion of the 1240s. However, the Rurik dynasty ruled present-day Russia until the late 16th century. SUBSCRIBE Invalid email.

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.

Commemorations are under way in Ukraine, which is marking the 1,025th anniversary of the conversion to Christianity of Kievan Rus, the medieval Slavic state that laid the Orthodox foundations for ...

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 ...

Kievan Rus’, a huge ancient state of Eastern Slavs that at the end of the first millennium AD spanned the vast territories of contemporary Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, was christened by Grand ...