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Kievan Rus', [a][b] also known as Kyivan Rus ', [6][7] was the first East Slavic state and later an amalgam of principalities [8] in Eastern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century. [9][10] Encompassing a variety of polities and peoples, including East Slavic, Norse, [11][12] and Finnic, it was ruled by the Rurik dynasty, founded by ...
Kyiv prospered in the Russian industrial revolution of the late 19th century. In the conflicts and turbulence that followed the October Revolution of 1917, it became the capital of several short-lived Ukrainian states. From December 1922 on, it was part of the Soviet Union, and from 1934 the capital of Soviet Ukraine.
The Mongol Empire invaded and conquered much of Kievan Rus' in the mid-13th century, sacking 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 held to mark the end of the state of Kievan Rus', [1][2] which had already been undergoing ...
A miniature from the Spassky Gospels, Yaroslavl, made in the 1220s. The culture of Kievan Rus' spans the cultural developments in Kievan Rus' from the 9th to 13th century of the Middle Ages. The Kievan monarchy came under the sphere of influence of the Byzantine Empire, one of the most advanced cultures of the time, and adopted Christianity ...
e. The history of Ukraine spans thousands of years. Prehistoric Ukraine, as a part of the Pontic steppe in Eastern Europe, played an important role in Eurasian cultural events, including the spread of the Chalcolithic and Bronze Ages, Indo-European migrations, and the domestication of the horse. [1][2][3] A part of Scythia in antiquity, Ukraine ...
1239 – Danylo of Galicia captured Kyiv. [8][9] 1240 – Siege and sack of Kyiv by Mongol forces under Batu Khan. [10][8][9] 1299 - Metropolitan bishop Maximus relocates to Vladimir. [4] 1320 - Gediminas, Duke of Lithuania in power. [2] 1362 - Kyiv becomes part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. 1397 - Spiridon Psalter created.
In 1918, when the Ukrainian People's Republic declared independence from the Russian Republic after the October Revolution there, Kyiv became its capital. From the end of the Ukrainian-Soviet and Polish-Soviet wars in 1921, Kyiv was a city of the Ukrainian SSR , and made its capital in 1934.
The following list begins with the semi-legendary founders of Kyiv and the first Norse rulers of Kyiv, who ruled over the territory of Ukraine during Antiquity, and is followed by the Grand rulers and princes who ruled over the territory of Kievan Rus and later Ruthenia as part of Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and continues with the hetmans and ...