Prince Oleg ( This article is part of the Scandinavia series Viking Age Ting Kalmar Union Denmark-Norway Sweden-Norway Monetary Union Defense union Languages Mountains Peninsula Varangian Viking History of Sweden History of Norway History of Denmark Language classification Indo-European languages Germanic languages North Germanic languages A North Germanic language is... Norse name Helgu) was the East Slavic ruler who moved the capital of Rus from For other cities named Novgorod see Novgorod (disambiguation). Novgorod (Но́вгород) is a city in North-Western Russia. Since 1998 the official name of the city has been Velikiy Novgorod (Great Novgorod). It is the capital of Novgorod Oblast. The city lies along... Novgorod the Great to For other uses, see Kiev (disambiguation). Kiev (Київ, Kyiv, in The neutrality of this article is disputed. Please see the relevant discussion on the talk page. Ukrainian (українська мова / Ukraïnska Mova) Spoken in: Ukraine... Kiev. He is thought to have been a supreme ruler from Years: 875 876 877 878 - 879 - 880 881 882 883 Decades: 840s 850s 860s - 870s - 880s 890s 900s Centuries: 8th century - 9th century - 10th century Contents // 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Heads of states Events Wilfred the Hairy, Count of Barcelona, founded the benedictine monastery at Ripoll. Births... 879 to Years: 908 909 910 911 - 912 - 913 914 915 916 Decades: 880s 890s 900s - 910s - 920s 930s 940s Centuries: 9th century - 10th century - 11th century Events Orso II Participazio becomes Doge of Venice Patriarch Nicholas I Mysticus becomes patriarch of Constantinople Births November 23 - Otto I the Great Holy Roman... 912, although recently discovered [edit (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:History_of_Russia&action=edit)] History of Russia Early East Slavs Khazars Kievan Rus Volga Bulgaria Mongol invasion Golden Horde Muscovy Imperial Russia Revolution of 1905 Revolution of 1917 Civil War Soviet Union Russian Federation The Khazars were a Turkic... Khazarian sources mention the activities of certain kagan HLGW of Rus ca Years: 941 942 943 944 - 945 - 946 947 948 949 Decades: 910s 920s 930s - 940s - 950s 960s 970s Centuries: 9th century - 10th century - 11th century Events Saint Dunstan abbot at Glastonbury Edmund I of England conquers Strathclyde Howell the Good convenes a conference at Whitland, which reforms the laws of... 945.

Oleg being mourned by his warriors (1899).

A relation (likely brother-in-law) of the first ruler, Rurik or Riurik (held to be the same name as the Scandinavian Hroerekr) (ca 830 - ca 879) was a Varangian who gained control of Ladoga in 862 and built the Holmgard settlement (Rurikovo Gorodische) in Novgorod. The Varangians in Russia Contents // 1 History 2 Disputed origin 2.1 The Slavic... Rurik, the This article is part of the Scandinavia series Viking Age Ting Kalmar Union Denmark-Norway Sweden-Norway Monetary Union Defense union Languages Mountains Peninsula Varangian Viking History of Sweden History of Norway History of Denmark The Varangians or Variags were Vikings who travelled eastwards from Sweden and Norway. Promoting trade... Varangian Helgu was entrusted by Rurik to take care of both his kingdom and his young son Ingvar, or Burial of Igor the Old. Igor Riurikovich, or Ingvar Röreksson, ruled Kievan Rus from 912 to 945. Very little is known about him from the Primary Chronicle. It has been speculated that the chroniclers chose not to enlarge on his reign, as Rus was dominated by Khazaria at that... Igor. Oleg gradually took control of the Dnieper cities, captured Kiev (previously held by other Varangians, Askold (Höskuldr) and Dir (Dyri) were according to the Primary Chronicle, two of Ruriks men. The chronicle relates that they were neither his relatives nor of noble blood. They asked for permission to go to Constantinople (Old Norse Miklagard, Slavic Czargrad). When travelling on the Dnieper, they saw... Askold and Dir) and finally moved his capital from For other cities named Novgorod see The name Novgorod is used for the following cities. Velikiy Novgorod, Russia (also known as simply Novgorod) Nizhny Novgorod, Russia Novhorod-Volynsky, Ukraine Novhorod-Siverskyy, Ukraine This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the... Novgorod there. The new capital was a convenient place to launch a raid against Map of Constantinople. Constantinople (Roman name: Constantinopolis; This article needs cleanup. Please edit this article to conform to a higher standard of article quality. The neutrality of this article is disputed. Please see the relevant discussion on the talk page. Modern Greek is the present vernacular language of Greece (also... Constantinople in This article is about the year 911 A.D. For other uses, see 911 (disambiguation). Years: 907 908 909 910 - 911 - 912 913 914 915 Decades: 880s 890s 900s - 910s - 920s 930s 940s Centuries: 9th century - 10th century - 11th century Events Lower Seine area is ceded to Scandinavian invaders as... 911 that won a favourable trade treaty, which eventually was of great benefit to both nations. The text of the treaty survives in the The Russian Primary Chronicle (Russian: Повесть временных лет, Povest vremennykh let, which is often translated in English as Tale of Bygone Years), is a history of the early East Slavic state, Kievan Rus, from... Primary Chronicle.

According to a legend recorded by Aleksandr Pushkin was a Russian poet and a founder of modern Russian literature Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Пу́шкин) (June 6 (May 26, O.S... Pushkin in his celebrated A ballad is a story in song, usually a narrative song or poem. It is a rhythmic saga of a past affair, which may be heroic, romantic or satirical, almost inevitably catastrophic, which is related in the third person, usually with foreshortened alternating four- and three-stress lines (ballad meter... ballad, it was prophesied by the pagan priests that Oleg would take death from his stallion. He sent the horse away. Many years later he asked where his horse was, and was told it had died. He asked to see the remains and was taken to the place where the bones lay. When he touched the horse's skull with his boot a snake slithered from the skull and bit him. Oleg died, thus fulfilling the prophecy. In Scandinavian traditions, this legend lived on in the saga of Orvar-Odd (i.e. arrow-odd) was a legendary hero of whom an anonymous Icelander wrote in the latter part of the 13th century. The saga of Orvar-Odd became very popular and it contained old legends and songs. Odd was the son of Grim Lodinkinni and the grand-son... Orvar-Odd. Two funerary barrows have been known as Oleg's graves, one in Staraya Ladoga (Russian: Старая Ладога) is a village near Lake Ladoga. Its old Russian name is Ladoga (Rus: Ладога). In 1703 Russian tsar Peter I the Great founded the town of Novaya Ladoga (New Ladoga... Ladoga and another in Kiev.