In this documentary, we look at the origins of the Kievan Rus. The Vikings who assailed the shores of Britain and France were mostly Norwegian or Danish. But Viking adventurers from Sweden were drawn ...

Vikings totally messed up with its ‘historical’ depiction of Kievan Rus’, but it seems that the TV show’s makers did it on purpose. We’ve been waiting for this TV show’s return for the ...

Is Kievan Rus a real place? In the sixth series of Vikings, Ivar the Boneless has travelled East to the Kievan Rus after losing the throne of Kattegat to his brother, Bjorn Ironside (Alexander ...

Hence, Kiev’s official historical narrative now claims that Kievan Rus’ was a proto-Ukrainian state due to the simple fact that contemporary Ukrainians occupy the core territory of the ancient ...

Commemorations are taking place in Ukraine to mark the 1,025th anniversary of the conversion to Christianity of Kievan Rus, the medieval Slavic state that laid the Orthodox foundations for modern ...

In the latest episode of Vikings, Hvitserk (played by Marco Ilsø) was seconds from being burned alive at the stake for murdering the famous shieldmaiden Lagertha (Katheryn Winnick). Elsewhere in ...

It was the mid-10th century AD when Kievan Rus was ruled for the first time by a woman, appointed as regent on behalf of her three-year-old son. She was the one who defeated the Drevlians, a Slavic ...

9th century - Founding of Kievan Rus, the first major Eastern Slavonic state. The traditional account, a matter of debate among historians, attributes its founding to the semi-legendary Viking ...