succession system was skipped in the establishment of Vladimir II Monomakh as the Grand Prince of Kiev (r. 1113–1125), in turn creating major squabbles between...

Kyiv (also Kiev) is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population...

who was herself a pianist. In 1912 he entered the Kiev Conservatory, where he was taught by Vladimir Puchalsky, Sergei Tarnowsky, and Felix Blumenfeld...

Khazar Khaganate (? – c. 880) Kievan Rus' (c. 880–1240) Principality of Kiev 1132–1471 ∟ part of the Kievan Rus' from 1132 to 1240 ∟ part of the Golden...

September 1246), known as Michael or Mikhail of Chernigov, was Grand Prince of Kiev (1236–1239; 1241–1243); he was also Prince of Pereyaslavl (1206), Novgorod-Seversk...

Eupraxia Vsevolodovna of Kiev (c. 1067 – 10 July 1109) (sometimes westernised as Praxedis; in Old East Slavic Еоупраксиа) was a Holy Roman Empress consort...

former prince, Vladimir Yaroslavich, who had escaped from captivity and returned to Halych. Duke Casimir II of Poland also supported Vladimir Yaroslavich...

Cathedral consecrated. 1701 - Imperial Theological Academy formed. 1708 - Kiev Governorate founded. 1732 - Florivsky Convent church dedicated. 1745 - Great...

Princess in Antonín Dvořák's Rusalka, Rosina in II Barbiere di Siviglia, Susanna in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro and others. In 2011, Maksakova joined the...

About 988, the Ruthenian Grand Prince Vladimir the Great (Ukrainian: Volodymyr, born c. 958, Grand Prince of Kiev from 980 to 1015) founded the town of...

reign was to offer the hand of his sister Anna Porphyrogenita to Vladimir I of Kiev in exchange for military support, thus forming the Byzantine military...

exterminate Jews and anti-nazi "partisans" Babi Yar a series of massacres in Kiev, the most notorious and the best documented of these massacres took place...

of God, We Nicholas, Emperor and Autocrat of All Russia, of Moscow, Kiev, Vladimir, Novgorod; Tsar of Kazan, Tsar of Astrakhan, Tsar of Poland, Tsar of...

the grand prince of Vladimir and Alexander was given the princely title of Kiev. However, when they returned, Andrey went to Vladimir while Alexander went...

Europe. The reigns of Vladimir the Great (980–1015) and his son Yaroslav the Wise (1019–1054) constitute the Golden Age of Kiev, which saw the acceptance...

March 2023. Retrieved 18 August 2021. Geiger, Vladimir (2012). "Human Losses of the Croats in World War II and the Immediate Post-War Period Caused by the...

engagement ceremonies of his second surviving son, Vladimir, to Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in Berlin, Alexander II, with his third son, Alexei, accompanying...

from the year 1913 in Russia. Monarch – Nicholas II Chairman of the Council of Ministers – Vladimir Nikolayevich Kokovtsov January – Joseph Stalin (whose...

launched the Kiev offensive with the goal of securing favorable borders for Poland. On 7 May, Polish and allied Ukrainian forces captured Kiev, though Soviet...

IX, Byzantine Emperor Vladimir Monomakh of Kiev "~ the Wicked": Ordoño IV of León Yazdegerd I of Persia "~ the Wise": Albert II of Austria Albert IV of...

converted from Judaism to Lutheranism, Vladimir Medem was educated in a Minsk gymnasium. He studied later at the Kiev University and developed an interest...

mistress. His wife the Grand Duchess left him for good in 1881 and moved to Kiev, but refused to grant the divorce he wanted. The couple's adult sons took...

of World War II films (1950–1989) contains fictional feature films or miniseries released since 1950 which feature events of World War II in the narrative...

affairs. He went to the front with his friend Grand Duchess Vladimir, then to Tbilisi and Kiev. Three times he went back to England for a short period, maybe...

house under the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee, and shifted to Kiev two years later. Publishing in the Yiddish language increased towards the...

Along the Dnieper, the route crossed several major rapids and passed through Kiev. After entering the Black Sea, it followed its west coast to Constantinople...

shoots Russian prime minister Pyotr Stolypin at the Kiev Opera House in the presence of Tsar Nicholas II and two of his daughters, Grand Duchesses Olga and...

Borey class Yuriy Dolgorukiy Aleksandr Nevskiy Vladimir Monomakh Knyaz Vladimir Echo I class Echo II class K-131 Papa class K-222 (1970–1988) Yankee...

World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. An estimated total of 70–85 million people perished, or about 3% of the estimated global population...

calculations of World War II victims in Yugoslavia were made by the Serb statistician Bogoljub Kočović and the Croat demographer Vladimir Žerjavić. Tomasevich...