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The architecture of Kievan Rus' is the earliest period of Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian architecture, using the foundations of Byzantine culture, but with great use of innovations and architectural features. Most remains are Russian Orthodox churches or parts of the gates and fortifications of cities. [citation needed]
The Scandinavian influence in Kievan Rus ' was most important during the late 9th c. and during the 10th c. In 976, Vladimir the Great (Valdamarr gamli [109]) fled from his brother Yaropolk to Sweden, ruled by Erik the Victorious, where he gathered an invasion force that he used to conquer Kievan Rus '.
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 during the Christianization of Kievan Rus' .
The most common theory about the origins of Russians is the Germanic version. The name Rus ', like the Proto-Finnic name for Sweden (*roocci), [2] supposed to be descended from an Old Norse term for "the men who row" (rods-) as rowing was the main method of navigating the rivers of Eastern Europe, and that it could be linked to the Swedish coastal area of Roslagen or Roden, as it was known in ...
The calling of the Varangians in the Laurentian Codex (1377). According to Cross & Sherbowitz-Wetzor (translators of the 1930/1953 English editions of the Laurentian Codex), the invitation of the Varangians 'has inspired a larger volume of controversial literature than any other disputed point in Russian history.' [16] Contentions have centred on the meaning of the ethnonyms and toponyms used ...
The Russkaya Pravda (sometimes translated as Rus' Justice, Rus' Truth, [2] or Russian Justice) [3] [4] [a] was the legal code of Kievan Rus' and its principalities during the period of feudal fragmentation. It was written at the beginning of the 12th century and remade during many centuries.
First page of the oldest surviving copy of Russkaya Pravda (Vast edition) from Synodic Kormchaia of 1282 (). Kievan Rus' law [1] [2] [3] or law of Kievan Rus ', [4] also known as old Russian law [5] or early Russian law, [6] was a legal system in Kievan Rus' (since the 9th century), in later Rus' principalities, and in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the 13th century. [7]
A bylina (Russian: былина, IPA: [bɨˈlʲinə]; pl. былины, byliny) is a type of Russian oral epic poem. [1] [2]The oldest byliny are set in the 10th to 12th centuries in Kievan Rus', while others deal with all periods of Russian and Ukrainian history. [1]