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The Baptism of Rus ' (Klavdiy Lebedev c. 1900). The Christianization of Kievan Rus' was a long and complicated process that took place in several stages. [1] In 867, Patriarch Photius of Constantinople told other Christian patriarchs that the Rus' people were converting enthusiastically, but his efforts seem to have entailed no lasting consequences, since the Russian Primary Chronicle [2] [3 ...
Official website. baptist.org.ru. The Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists, RUECB (Russian: Росси́йский сою́з ева́нгельских христиа́н-бапти́стов, РСЕХБ) is an association of Baptist Christian churches in Russia. It is affiliated with the Baptist World Alliance. The headquarters is ...
Orthodox Christianity (official since 10th cent.) 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 ...
The Council of Liubech (sometimes referred to as the Liubech Conference)[ 1] ( Ukrainian: Лю́бецький з'їзд, Russian: Любечский съезд) was one of the best documented princely meetings in Kievan Rus' that took place in Liubech (today in Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine) on October 19, 1097. [ 2] The council ended the ...
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 ...
The Conversion of Volodimer[1] is a narrative recorded in several different versions in medieval sources about how Vladimir the Great converted from Slavic paganism to Byzantine Christianity in the 980s. In traditional historiography, it is known as the Baptism of Volodimer, [a] and regarded as the highlight of the Christianization of Kievan ...
Vladimir I Sviatoslavich or Volodymyr I Sviatoslavych [7] (Old East Slavic: Володимѣръ Свѧтославичь, romanized: Volodiměr Svętoslavič; [a] [b] [9] Christian name: Basil; [10] c. 958 – 15 July 1015), given the epithet "the Great", [11] was Prince of Novgorod from 970 and Grand Prince of Kiev from 978 until his death in 1015.
Rota system. The rota (or rotation) system or the lestvitsa system (from the Old Church Slavonic word for "ladder" or "staircase") is a historiographical concept introduced by historian Sergei Soloviev in 1860, attempting to describe a system of collateral succession practiced (though imperfectly) in Kievan Rus', later appanages, and early the ...