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1043. 30 February. Rus'–Byzantine War (1043): Yaroslav led an unsuccessful naval raid on Constantinople. According to the peace settlement, Yaroslav's son Vsevolod I married a daughter of the Byzantine emperor Constantine Monomachos. 1054. Yaroslav died. He was succeeded by his oldest son, Iziaslav I. 1068.
Kseniya Sobchak, TV celebrity, host for a number of popular programs, Russia's " It girl " and "Russia's Paris Hilton ". Roman Trakhtenberg, actor, popular host of humour shows on radio and TV, an expert on Russian jokes. Vladimir Turchinsky, bodybuilder, TV and radio presenter, actor and singer.
The Millennium of Russia monument in Veliky Novgorod (unveiled on 8 September 1862) Medieval Russian states around 1470, including Novgorod, Tver, Pskov, Ryazan, Rostov and Moscow Expansion and territorial evolution of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Tsardom of Russia and Russian Empire between the 14th and 20th centuries Location of the Russian SFSR within the Soviet Union in 1956–1991
The most common theory about the origins of Russians is the Germanic version. The name Rus ', like the Proto-Finnic name for Sweden (*Ruotsi), 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 ...
Prince Karl Emich of Leiningen. This is a list of all reigning monarchs in the history of Russia. The list begins with the semi-legendary prince Rurikof Novgorod, sometime in the mid-9th century, and ends with Nicholas II, who abdicated in 1917, and was executed with his familyin 1918. Two dynasties have ruled Russia: the Rurikids(862–1598 ...
Execution of the Judaizers in 1504, miniature from the Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible. The Heresy of the Judaizers (Russian: ересь жидовствующих, romanized: yeres zhidovstvuyushchikh) [1] [2] was a religious movement that emerged in Novgorod and later Moscow in the second half of the 15th century which marked the beginning of a new era of schism in Russia. [3]
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 ...
Gerasim (ru) 1433–1435. 9. Isidore of Kiev. 1436–1441. Deposed by the Grand Prince of Moscow, Vasily II, over his acceptance of the Council of Florence. The deposition was not recognized by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. Seat vacant 1441–1448 (according to the Grand Duke of Moscow) Five Holy Metropolitans (Peter, Alexius ...