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Information about Igor comes mostly from the Primary Chronicle, which states that Igor was the son of Rurik: 6378–6387 (870–879). On his deathbed, Rurik bequeathed his realm to Oleg, who belonged to his kin, and entrusted to Oleg's hands his son Igor', for he was very young. 6388–6390 (880–882).
[12] [13] 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 Karpov, a specialist in the history of ancient Russia, Olga was no more than 15 years old at the time of her marriage. Igor was the son and heir of Rurik, founder of the Rurik dynasty.
The Church of St. Igor of Chernigov in Moscow. Igor II Olgovich [a] (died September 19, 1147) was Prince of Chernigov and Grand Prince of Kiev (1146). [1] He was a son of Oleg I of Chernigov. He was the chosen successor of his brother, Vsevolod II of Kiev. Though his brother had extracted promises of loyalty from his Kievan subjects, Igor and ...
Scholars have contrasted this dating scheme with the "epic" reigns of roughly thirty-three years for both Oleg and Igor in the Primary Chronicle. [19] The Primary Chronicle and other Kievan sources place Oleg's grave in Kiev, while Novgorodian sources identify a funerary barrow in Ladoga as Oleg's final resting place. [20]
Igor of Kiev Exacting Tribute from the Drevlians, by Klavdiy Lebedev (1852–1916) The Drevlians initially fervently opposed the Kievan Rus'. According to a number of chronicles, in the times of Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv (supposedly, founders of Kiev) the Drevlians had their own princely rule and were frequently at war with the Polyani.
The Rus'–Byzantine War of 941 took place during the reign of Igor of Kiev. [ n 3 ] The first naval attack was driven off and followed by another, successful offensive in 944. [ 8 ] The outcome was the Rus'–Byzantine Treaty of 945 .
The Rus'–Byzantine Treaty, between the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII and Igor I of Kiev, was concluded either in 944 or 945.It was a result of the Rus'-Byzantine War of 941 undertaken by Kievan Rus' against Constantinople.
Sviatoslav's Return from the Danube to His Family in Kiev (1773) Among the works created during the war was Yakov Knyazhnin's tragedy Olga (1772). The Russian playwright chose to introduce Sviatoslav as his protagonist, although his active participation in the events following Igor's death is out of sync with the traditional chronology.