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"Rus' land" from the Primary Chronicle, a copy of the Laurentian Codex. During its existence, Kievan Rus' was known as the "Rus' land" (Old East Slavic: ро́усьскаѧ землѧ́, romanized: rusĭskaę zemlę, from the ethnonym Роусь, Rusĭ; Medieval Greek: Ῥῶς, romanized: Rhos; Arabic: الروس, romanized: ar-Rūs), in Greek as Ῥωσία, Rhosia, in Old French as Russie ...
Kyiv, labelled Kiou, in a detail of Ortelius's 1562 map "Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio" (Description of Rus, Muscovy, and Tartary). Kyiv became a part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania after the Battle at Blue Waters in 1362, when Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania, beat a Golden Horde army. During the period between 1362 and 1471 ...
Demographic history of Russia; Gleb Svyatoslavich; Kievan Rus' Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia; List of Latvian words borrowed from Old East Slavic; List of tribes and states in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine; Mstislav of Chernigov; Novgorod Republic; Principality of Beloozero; Principality of Chernigov; Principality of Drutsk; Principality of Galicia
1660 - Russo-Polish War (1654–1667): Armenians expelled by Tsar Alexis of Russia. [13] 1667 - Truce of Andrusovo leads to Kyiv temporarily becoming part of the Tsardom of Russia. 1686 - Eternal Peace Treaty of 1686 makes the transfer to Russia permanent. 1693 - Cathedral of the Epiphany built. [4] 1696 - St. Nicholas Cathedral consecrated. [4]
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The Penguin historical atlas of Russia (Viking, 1995), new topical maps. Chew, Allen F. An atlas of Russian history: eleven centuries of changing borders (Yale UP, 1970), new topical maps. Gilbert, Martin. Routledge Atlas of Russian History (4th ed. 2007) excerpt and text search; Parker, William Henry. An historical geography of Russia (Aldine ...
The Millennium of Russia monument in Veliky Novgorod (unveiled on 8 September 1862). The history of Russia begins with the histories of the East Slavs. [1] [2] The traditional start date of specifically Russian history is the establishment of the Rus' state in the north in the year 862, ruled by Varangians.
The map of al-Idrisi in 1154 shows not only the territorial placement of Ukraine, but also for the first time the name "Rusia" (Rusia, meaning Kievan Rus). The inscriptions on the map include "Ard al Rusia" - the land of Rus (the territory of Right-bank and Left-bank Ukraine), "muttasil ard al Rusia" - the connected land of Rus, "minal Rusia al ...