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Askold and Dir

Index Askold and Dir

Askold and Dir (Haskuldr or Hǫskuldr and Dyr or Djur in Old Norse; died in 882), mentioned in both the Primary Chronicle, the Novgorod First Chronicle, and the Nikon Chronicle, were the earliest known rulers of Kiev. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 88 relations: Abbot, Agape, Chionia, and Irene, Al-Masudi, Aleksey Shakhmatov, Anti-Normanism, Arabs, Askold's Grave, Askold's Grave (opera), Álmos, Book of Veles, Boris Rybakov, Bylina, Celtic languages, Christianization of Kievan Rus', Chud, Constantinople, Dmitry Ilovaysky, Dnieper, Doctor of Sciences, East Slavs, Encyclopaedia of Islam, F. Donald Logan, Grand Prince of Kiev, Grivna, Hegumen, Herodotus, Hungarian language, Igor Danilevsky, Igor of Kiev, Inferiority complex, Izbornyk, Jan Długosz, Khazars, Kievan Rus', Kievan Synopsis, Krivichs, Kurgan, Kyi dynasty, Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv, Kyiv, Laurentian Codex, Leo Klejn, List of Russian steam frigates, Liubech, Maciej Stryjkowski, Martyr, Meryans, Metropolis, Mikhail Tikhomirov, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, ... Expand index (38 more) »

  2. 882 deaths
  3. 9th-century Vikings
  4. Princes
  5. Textual criticism of the Primary Chronicle

Abbot

Abbot is an ecclesiastical title given to the head of an independent monastery for men in various Western Christian traditions.

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Agape, Chionia, and Irene

Agape, Chionia and Irene (Αγάπη, Χιονία και Ειρήνη) were sisters and Christian saints from Aquileia, martyred at Thessalonica in 304 AD.

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Al-Masudi

al-Masʿūdī (full name, أبو الحسن علي بن الحسين بن علي المسعودي), –956, was a historian, geographer and traveler.

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Aleksey Shakhmatov

Aleksey Aleksandrovich Shakhmatov (Алексе́й Алекса́ндрович Ша́хматов, – 16 August 1920) was a Russian philologist and historian credited with laying the foundations for the science of textology.

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Anti-Normanism

Normanism and anti-Normanism are competing theories about the origin of Kievan Rus' that emerged in the 18th and 19th centuries concerning the narrative of the Viking Age in Eastern Europe.

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Arabs

The Arabs (عَرَب, DIN 31635:, Arabic pronunciation), also known as the Arab people (الشَّعْبَ الْعَرَبِيّ), are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa.

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Askold's Grave

Askold's Grave (translit) is a historical park on the steep right bank of the Dnipro River in Kyiv between Mariinskyi Park and the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra complex.

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Askold's Grave (opera)

Askold's Grave (also: Askold's Tomb, Russian: Аскольдова могила – Askol’dova mogila) is an opera in four acts by Alexey Verstovsky with a libretto by Mikhail Zagoskin.

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Álmos

Álmos, also Almos or Almus (c. 820 – c. 895), was—according to the uniform account of Hungarian chronicles—the first head of the "loose federation" of the Hungarian tribes from around 850.

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Book of Veles

The Book of Veles (also: Veles Book, Vles book, Vles kniga, Vlesbook, Isenbeck's Planks, Велесова книга, Велесова књига, Велес книга, Книга Велеса, Дощечки Изенбека, Дощьки Изенбека) is a literary forgery purporting to be a text of ancient Slavic religion and history supposedly written on wooden planks.

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Boris Rybakov

Boris Aleksandrovich Rybakov (3 June 1908, Moscow – 27 December 2001, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian archeologist and historian.

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Bylina

A bylina (былина) is a type of Russian oral epic poem.

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Celtic languages

The Celtic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family, descended from Proto-Celtic.

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Christianization of Kievan Rus'

The Christianization of Kievan Rus' was a long and complicated process that took place in several stages.

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Chud

Chud or Chude (čudǐ, tšuudi, čuhti) is a term historically applied in the early East Slavic annals to several Baltic Finnic peoples in the area of what is now Estonia, Karelia and Northwestern Russia.

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Constantinople

Constantinople (see other names) became the capital of the Roman Empire during the reign of Constantine the Great in 330.

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Dmitry Ilovaysky

Dmitry Ivanovich Ilovaysky (February 11/23, 1832, Ranenburg - February 15, 1920) was an anti-Normanist conservative Russian historian who penned a number of standard history textbooks.

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Dnieper

The Dnieper, also called Dnepr or Dnipro, is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea.

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Doctor of Sciences

Doctor of Sciences (p, abbreviated д-р наук or д. н.; доктор наук; доктор на науките; доктар навук) is a higher doctoral degree in the Russian Empire, Soviet Union and many post-Soviet countries, which may be earned after the Candidate of Sciences.

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East Slavs

The East Slavs are the most populous subgroup of the Slavs.

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Encyclopaedia of Islam

The Encyclopaedia of Islam (EI) is a reference work that facilitates the academic study of Islam.

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F. Donald Logan

Francis Donald Logan (born March 9, 1930, died February 22, 2022) was an American historian who was Professor of History at Emmanuel College.

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Grand Prince of Kiev

The Grand Prince of Kiev (sometimes grand duke) was the title of the monarch of Kievan Rus', residing in Kiev (modern Kyiv) from the 10th to 13th centuries.

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Grivna

The grivna (гривьна) was a currency as well as a measure of weight used in Kievan Rus' and other states in Eastern Europe from the 11th century.

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Hegumen

Hegumen, hegumenos, or igumen (ἡγούμενος, trans.), is the title for the head of a monastery in the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches, or an archpriest in the Coptic Orthodox Church, similar to the title of abbot.

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Herodotus

Herodotus (Ἡρόδοτος||; BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy.

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Hungarian language

Hungarian is a Uralic language of the proposed Ugric branch spoken in Hungary and parts of several neighbouring countries.

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Igor Danilevsky

Igor Nikolaevich Danilevsky (Игорь Николаевич Данилевский; born 20 May 1953 in Rostov-on-Don) is a Russian historian and a specialist on the history of Kievan Rus and Muscovy until the end of the 16th century.

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Igor of Kiev

Igor (Игорь; Ingvarr; – 945) was Prince of Kiev from 912 to 945.

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Inferiority complex

In psychology, an inferiority complex is a consistent feeling of inadequacy, often resulting in the belief that one is in some way deficient, or inferior, to others.

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Izbornyk

Izbornyk is an internet-library project of the old Ukrainian literature also known as "History of Ukraine 9-18th centuries.

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Jan Długosz

Jan Długosz (1 December 1415 – 19 May 1480), also known in Latin as Johannes Longinus, was a Polish priest, chronicler, diplomat, soldier, and secretary to Bishop Zbigniew Oleśnicki of Kraków.

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Khazars

The Khazars were a nomadic Turkic people that, in the late 6th-century CE, established a major commercial empire covering the southeastern section of modern European Russia, southern Ukraine, Crimea, and Kazakhstan.

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Kievan Rus'

Kievan Rus', also known as Kyivan Rus,.

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Kievan Synopsis

The Synopsis, also known as the Kievan Synopsis or Kyivan Synopsis is work of history, first published in Kiev in 1674.

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Krivichs

The Krivichs or Kryvichs (krivichi; kryvičý) were a tribal union of Early East Slavs between the 6th and the 12th centuries.

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Kurgan

A kurgan is a type of tumulus constructed over a grave, often characterized by containing a single human body along with grave vessels, weapons and horses.

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Kyi dynasty

Kyi dynasty, also known as the Kyivites (translit) was allegedly a dynasty of early medieval Polans rulers of Kyiv.

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Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv

Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv were three legendary brothersoften mentioned along with their sister Lybid who, according to the Primary Chronicle, founded the city of Kyiv, which eventually became the capital of Kievan Rus'. Askold and Dir and Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv are Textual criticism of the Primary Chronicle.

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Kyiv

Kyiv (also Kiev) is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine.

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Laurentian Codex

Laurentian Codex or Laurentian Letopis (Лаврентьевский список, Лаврентьевская летопись) is a collection of chronicles that includes the oldest extant version of the Primary Chronicle and its continuations, mostly relating the events in the northeastern Rus' principalities of Vladimir-Suzdal.

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Leo Klejn

Lev Samuilovich Kleyn (1 July 1927 – 7 November 2019), better known in English as Leo Klejn and Leo S. Klein, was a Russian archaeologist, anthropologist and philologist.

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List of Russian steam frigates

List of Russian paddle and screw frigates, corvettes and clippers from 1836–1892.

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Liubech

Liubech (Ukrainian and Russian:; Lubecz) is a rural settlement in Chernihiv Oblast, northern Ukraine.

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Maciej Stryjkowski

Maciej Stryjkowski (also referred to as Strykowski and Strycovius; –) was a Polish historian, writer and a poet, known as the author of Chronicle of Poland, Lithuania, Samogitia and all of Ruthenia (1582).

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Martyr

A martyr (mártys, 'witness' stem, martyr-) is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, or refusing to renounce or advocate, a religious belief or other cause as demanded by an external party.

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Meryans

The Meryans (also Merya people; меряне, meryane or меря, marya) were an ancient Finnic people that lived in the Upper Volga region.

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Metropolis

A metropolis is a large city or conurbation which is a significant economic, political, and cultural area for a country or region, and an important hub for regional or international connections, commerce, and communications.

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Mikhail Tikhomirov

Mikhail Nikolayevich Tikhomirov (Михаи́л Николáевич Тихоми́ров; 31 May 1893 — 2 September 1965) was a leading Soviet specialist in medieval Russian paleography.

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Mykhailo Hrushevsky

Mykhailo Serhiiovych Hrushevsky (translit; – 24 November 1934) was a Ukrainian academician, politician, historian and statesman who was one of the most important figures of the Ukrainian national revival of the early 20th century.

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Names of Istanbul

The city of Istanbul has been known by a number of different names.

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Nestor the Chronicler

Nestor the Chronicler or Nestor the Hagiographer (Nestor Letopisec; 1056 – 1114) was a monk from the Kievan Rus who is known to have written two saints' lives: the Life of the Venerable Theodosius of the Kiev Caves and the Account about the Life and Martyrdom of the Blessed Passion Bearers Boris and Gleb.

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Nikon Chronicle

The Nikon Chronicle (Никоновская летопись) is a compilation of Russian chronicles undertaken at the court of Ivan the Terrible in the mid-16th century.

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Norsemen

The Norsemen (or Norse people) were a North Germanic linguistic group of the Early Middle Ages, during which they spoke the Old Norse language.

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Novgorod First Chronicle

The Novgorod First Chronicle (nəvɡɐˈrot͡skəjə ˈpʲervəjə ˈlʲetəpʲɪsʲ, commonly abbreviated as NPL) or The Chronicle of Novgorod, 1016–1471 is the oldest extant Rus' chronicle of the Novgorod Republic.

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Old Norse

Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages.

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Oleg the Wise

Oleg (Ѡлегъ, Ольгъ; Helgi; died 912), also known as Oleg the Wise, was a Varangian prince of the Rus' who became prince of Kiev, and laid the foundations of the Kievan Rus' state.

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Olga of Kiev

Olga (Ольга; Helga; – 11 July 969) was a regent of Kievan Rus' for her son Sviatoslav from 945 until 957.

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Oskil

The Oskil or Oskol (Оскiл; Оскол) is a south-flowing river in Russia and Ukraine.

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Photios I of Constantinople

Photios I (Φώτιος, Phōtios; c. 810/820 – 6 February 893), also spelled PhotiusFr.

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Podil

Podil or Podol (Поділ) or the Lower cityIvankin, H., Vortman, D..

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Polans (eastern)

The Polans or Polians (Polanie; Poljane), also known as Polanians, Polianians, and Eastern Polans, were an East Slavic tribe between the 6th and the 9th century, which inhabited both sides of the Dnieper river from Liubech to Rodnia and also down the lower streams of the rivers Ros', Sula, Stuhna, Teteriv, Irpin', Desna and Pripyat.

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Polans (western)

The Polans (Polish: Polanie; Latin: Polani, Polanos), also known as Polanians or Western Polans (Polish: Polanie Zachodni; Latin: Polani Occidentis), were a West Slavic and Lechitic tribe, inhabiting the Warta River basin of the contemporary Greater Poland region starting in the 6th century.

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Primary Chronicle

The Russian Primary Chronicle, commonly shortened to Primary Chronicle (translit, commonly transcribed Povest' vremennykh let (PVL)), is a chronicle of Kievan Rus' from about 850 to 1110.

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Prince of Novgorod

The Prince of Novgorod (translit) was the title of the ruler of Novgorod in present-day Russia.

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Pskov

Pskov (p; see also names in other languages) is a city in northwestern Russia and the administrative center of Pskov Oblast, located about east of the Estonian border, on the Velikaya River.

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Root (linguistics)

A root (or root word or radical) is the core of a word that is irreducible into more meaningful elements.

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Rurik

Rurik (also spelled Rorik, Riurik or Ryurik; Rjurikŭ; Hrøríkʀ; died 879) was a Varangian chieftain of the Rus' who, according to tradition, was invited to reign in Novgorod in the year 862.

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Rurikids

The Rurik dynasty, also known as the Rurikid or Riurikid dynasty, as well as simply Rurikids or Riurikids, was a noble lineage allegedly founded by the Varangian prince Rurik, who, according to tradition, established himself at Novgorod in the year 862. The Rurikids were the ruling dynasty of Kievan Rus' and its principalities following its disintegration.

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Rus' people

The Rus, also known as Russes, were a people in early medieval Eastern Europe.

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Rus'–Byzantine War (907)

Siege of Constantinople It is a military raid of the fleet of Rus' against Byzantium, a huge army landed in the Thrace and began to plunder it, after that the Byzantines offered peace to Rus.

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Russian cruiser Askold

Askold (Аскольд) was a protected cruiser built for the Imperial Russian Navy.

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Saint Nicholas

Saint Nicholas of Myra (traditionally 15 March 270 – 6 December 343), also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of Greek descent from the maritime city of Patara in Anatolia (in modern-day Antalya Province, Turkey) during the time of the Roman Empire.

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Scythians

The Scythians or Scyths (but note Scytho- in composition) and sometimes also referred to as the Pontic Scythians, were an ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic people who had migrated during the 9th to 8th centuries BC from Central Asia to the Pontic Steppe in modern-day Ukraine and Southern Russia, where they remained established from the 7th century BC until the 3rd century BC.

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Siege of Constantinople (860)

The siege of Constantinople in 860 was the only major military expedition of the Rus' people (Medieval Greek: Ῥῶς) recorded in Byzantine and Western European sources.

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Sineus and Truvor

Sineus and Truvor (Синеус и Трувор) were the brothers of Rurik, a Varangian chieftain of the Rus' who is traditionally considered to be the founder of the Rurik dynasty. Askold and Dir and Sineus and Truvor are 9th-century Vikings.

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Slavs

The Slavs or Slavic people are groups of people who speak Slavic languages.

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Smolensk

Smolensk is a city and the administrative center of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Dnieper River, west-southwest of Moscow.

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Sviatoslav I

Sviatoslav or Svyatoslav I Igorevich (Svętoslavŭ Igorevičǐ; Old Norse: Sveinald; – 972) was Prince of Kiev from 945 until his death in 972.

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Sylvester of Kiev

Sylvestr (Sil'vestr) (–1123, aged 67-68) was a clergyman and a writer in Kievan Rus'.

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Tsargrad

Tsarigrad or Tsargorod, also Czargrad and Tzargrad, is a Slavic name for the city or land of Constantinople (present-day Istanbul in Turkey), the capital of the Byzantine Empire.

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Varangians

The Varangians"," Online Etymology Dictionary were Viking conquerors, traders and settlers, mostly from present-day Sweden.

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Vasily Tatishchev

Vasily Nikitich Tatishchev (sometimes spelt Tatischev; Васи́лий Ники́тич Тати́щев,; 19 April 1686 – 15 July 1750) was a prominent Russian Imperial statesman, historian, philosopher, and ethnographer.

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Vepsians

Veps, or Vepsians, are a Baltic Finnic people who speak the Veps language, which belongs to the Finnic branch of the Uralic languages.

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Vladimir Petrukhin

Vladimir Petrukhin (full name: Vladimir Yakovlevich Petrukhin, Влади́мир Я́ковлевич Петру́хин; born on July 25, 1950, in Pushkino, Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union) is a Russian historian, archaeologist and ethnographer, Doctor of Historical Sciences (since 1994), chief research fellow of the Medieval Section in the Institute of Slavic Studies in the Russian Academy of Sciences,Vladimir Yakovlevich Petrukhin: Biobibliography / Russian State University for the Humanities; L.

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Vorskla

The Vorskla (Ворскла; Ворскла) is a river that runs from Belgorod Oblast in Russia southwards into northeastern Ukraine, where it joins the Dnieper.

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Vydubychi Monastery

Vydubychi Monastery (translit) is a historic monastery in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.

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Yaroslav the Wise

Yaroslav I Vladimirovich (978 – 20 February 1054), better known as Yaroslav the Wise, was Grand Prince of Kiev from 1019 until his death in 1054.

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See also

882 deaths

9th-century Vikings

Princes

Textual criticism of the Primary Chronicle

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askold_and_Dir

Also known as Askold, Asleik Björnsson, Haskuldr, Haskuldr and Dyri, King Askold, King Dir, Prince Askold, Prince Dir.

, Names of Istanbul, Nestor the Chronicler, Nikon Chronicle, Norsemen, Novgorod First Chronicle, Old Norse, Oleg the Wise, Olga of Kiev, Oskil, Photios I of Constantinople, Podil, Polans (eastern), Polans (western), Primary Chronicle, Prince of Novgorod, Pskov, Root (linguistics), Rurik, Rurikids, Rus' people, Rus'–Byzantine War (907), Russian cruiser Askold, Saint Nicholas, Scythians, Siege of Constantinople (860), Sineus and Truvor, Slavs, Smolensk, Sviatoslav I, Sylvester of Kiev, Tsargrad, Varangians, Vasily Tatishchev, Vepsians, Vladimir Petrukhin, Vorskla, Vydubychi Monastery, Yaroslav the Wise.