argue that the Rus' were themselves Slavs. Normanist theories focus on the earliest written source for the East Slavs, the Primary Chronicle, which was...

practices of the Slavs before Christianisation, which occurred at various stages between the 8th and the 13th century. The South Slavs, who likely settled...

The East Slavs are the most populous subgroup of the Slavs. They speak the East Slavic languages, and formed the majority of the population of the medieval...

The Slavs or Slavic people are groups of people who speak Slavic languages. Slavs are geographically distributed throughout the northern parts of Eurasia;...

(Proto-Indo-European speakers) Proto-Balto-Slavs (common ancestors of Balts and Slavs) (Proto-Balto-Slavic speakers) Proto-Slavs (Proto-Slavic speakers) Sporoi (also...

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...

populations of a number of medieval Christian states: East Slavs in the Kievan Rus', South Slavs in the Bulgarian Empire, the Principality of Serbia, the...

the Orthodox Slavs 900–1700. Cornell University Press. doi:10.7591/9781501727627. ISBN 978-1-5017-2762-7. Den hellige Vladimir av Kiev (~956–1015), Den...

was a steward in the household of his grandmother, Olga of Kiev. Yaropolk was given Kiev by his father Sviatoslav I, who left on a military campaign...

"Apostle of the Slavs", because he preached amongst the "Moravians" in "Illyricum", and the "Rus'" supposedly descended from the "Slavs", contradicting...

"Why did the Metropolitan Move from Kiev to Vladimir in the Thirteenth Century". Christianity and the Eastern Slavs. Volume I: Slavic Cultures in the Middle...

Slavic literature, the East Slavs refer to themselves as "[muzhi] ruskie" ("Rus' men") or, rarely, "rusichi." The East Slavs are thought to have adopted...

List of early Slavic peoples "Slavs". Encyclopedia of Ukraine. 1993. Retrieved 2023-01-25. Francis Conte (1995). The Slavs. East European Monographs. p...

Little is known about her life before her marriage to Prince Igor I of Kiev and the birth of their son, Sviatoslav.[citation needed] According to Alexey...

numerous cities including the largest: Kiev (50,000 inhabitants) and Chernigov (30,000 inhabitants). The siege of Kiev in 1240 by the Mongols is generally...

as designations for all East Slavs of the Carpathian region, to narrower uses, focusing on those local groups of East Slavs who did not accept a modern...

Principality of Polatsk, one of the earliest East Slav states along with the principalities of Kiev and Novgorod. There is no exact historical record...

Americas. Slavs East Slavs, West Slavs, South Slavs Antes people, Braničevci, Buzhans, Carantanians, Guduscani, Melingoi, Merehani, Slavs in Lower Pannonia...

vacuum created with the end of Hunnic and Gothic rule, Early Slavs, in the aftermath of the Kiev culture, began to expand over much of the territory that...

20 February 1054), better known as Yaroslav the Wise, was Grand Prince of Kiev from 1019 until his death in 1054. He was also earlier Prince of Novgorod...

Hilarion of Kiev's Sermon on Law and Grace (1050s), praising Volodimer I of Kiev, only goes back to his father Sviatoslav I and grandfather Igor of Kiev. Even...

romanized: Svętoslavŭ Igorevičǐ; Old Norse: Sveinald; c. 943 – 972) was Prince of Kiev from 945 until his death in 972. He is known for his persistent campaigns...

First Chronicle, and the Nikon Chronicle, were the earliest known rulers of Kiev.[better source needed] Also — Oskold, Oskol'd, Oskolod. (Осколд, Оскольд...

The Kiev Arsenal January Uprising (Ukrainian: Січневе повстання, romanized: Sichneve povstannya), sometimes simply called the January Uprising or the January...

compared to the number of Slavs and non-Slavs. In addition, the Norsemen married local women, had their weapons made by Slavs, and only a relatively small...

been a prince of Vyazma and son of Stanislav of Kiev (Stanislav is not a common name among East Slavs). The genealogy of the Shilovskys (ru:Шиловские)...

(Church Slavonic: Игорь; Old Norse: Ingvarr; c. 877 – 945) was Prince of Kiev from 912 to 945. Traditionally, he is considered to be the son of Rurik,...

biblical origins of the Slavs from a son of Noah mentioned in the Hebrew Bible;[citation needed] the early history of the Slavs, with the banks of the...

language of the East Slavs. American Slavist Alexander M. Schenker pointed out that modern terms for the medieval language of the East Slavs varied depending...

Rus'). This term was also used to refer to the Slavs of the island of Rügen or to other Baltic Slavs, whom 12th-century chroniclers portrayed as fierce...