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Kuna is a weight and monetary unit, as well as the name of the coins used in Kievan Rus' and the Russian lands from the 10th to 15th centuries. The circulation of money in Rus' arose at the beginning of the 9th century due to the massive penetration into the Rus' lands of the eastern dirham weighing 2.73 g which gets the name "Kuna".
In tracing the ancestry of Kievan princes they usually stopped with Igor.' [18] As an example, Hilarion of Kiev's Sermon on Law and Grace (1050s), praising Volodimer I of Kiev, only goes back to his father Sviatoslav I and grandfather Igor of Kiev. [19] Even if Rurik did exist, scholars have long doubted or rejected his paternity of Igor.
The first videos before the debut of web series Extra Credits were released on YouTube by the series' co-creator Daniel Floyd. The show was then picked up by The Escapist for the first 54 episodes before a contractual dispute forced the show to leave and be picked up by PATV. Technical limitations with PATV's site forced the official episodes ...
In 1299, Maximus (of Greek origin), the Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus', eventually moved the seat of the Metropolitanate from Kiev to Vladimir on the Klyazma, keeping the title. Since 1320, the city was the site of a new Catholic bishopric, when Henry, a Dominican friar, was appointed the first missionary Bishop of Kyiv. [28]
silver and gold coins with trident images, a personal mark of prince Volodymyr Sviatoslavych, Baptiser of Rus; Rus period silver hryvnas and plinths with trident images; legal statutory acts and statements (universals) of hetmans; cossack banners and guns; Kyiv metropolitan bishop's carriage; furniture, dishes and other utensils from the XIX ...
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Sviatoslav was the fourth son of Yaroslav the Wise, Grand Prince of Kiev, and his wife, Ingegerd of Sweden. [4] He was born in 1027. [4] The Lyubetskiy sinodik—a list of the princes of Chernigov which was completed in the Monastery of Saint Anthony in Lyubech—writes that his baptismal name was Nicholas.
A direction in Russian pre-Soviet, [7] Soviet and post-Soviet historiography, whose supporters deny the role of the Scandinavians in the creation of the Rus' state [8] or deny at all any participation of the Scandinavians (Normans) in the socio-political life of Rus'; reject and seek to refute the "Norman theory" of the creation of the Kievan Rus'. [9]