In this documentary, we look at the origins of the Kievan Rus. The Vikings who assailed the shores of Britain and France were mostly Norwegian or Danish. But Viking adventurers from Sweden were ...

Commemorations are taking place in Ukraine to mark the 1,025th anniversary of the conversion to Christianity of Kievan Rus, the medieval Slavic state that laid the Orthodox foundations for modern ...

It was the mid-10th century AD when Kievan Rus was ruled for the first time by a woman, appointed as regent on behalf of her three-year-old son. She was the one who defeated the Drevlians, a Slavic ...

Is Kievan Rus a real place? In the sixth series of Vikings, Ivar the Boneless has travelled East to the Kievan Rus after losing the throne of Kattegat to his brother, Bjorn Ironside (Alexander ...

This storyline sees him swept in to the empire of the Kievan Rus, which Oleg himself founded. READ MORE: Vikings season 6: Ragnar Lothbrok’s return finally revealed Where was the Kievan Rus in ...

To justify his designs on Ukraine, Russian president Vladimir Putin has repeatedly referred to what Russians call the Kievan ... warrior-traders from Scandinavia (also called Varangians or Rus ...

The Desyatinnaya Church was built at the end of the 10th century by the order of Grand Prince Vladimir of Kiev who Christianized Kievan Rus. This was the first stone church in Kievan Rus and funds ...