27.4 Early Kievan Rus. Rurik to Svyatoslav

A History of Europe, Key Battles

Carl Rylett

History

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🗓️ 10 June 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The dynasty of Rurik builds the foundations of a new power in eastern Europe - Kievan Rus. Princess Olga takes vengeance on a rebel town by burning it down, but after converting to Christianity was later sainted. Her son, Syvatoslav defeats the Khazars and then tries to resettle his people in Bulgaria before his early death.

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0:58.2	On June the 18th in the year 860, just as the sun was sitting, a flotilla of 200 Viking warships
1:06.1	made a sudden appearance outside the walls of Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire.
1:12.9	Having sailed south from their northern homeland via the Denepe and the Black Sea,
1:17.4	the invaders entered the Bosporus and attacked the suburbs outside the city walls.
1:22.7	After setting fire to many homes and murdering their residents,
1:26.7	the Vikings moved on to the Isles of the Princes, where they plundered the houses and monasteries.
1:31.3	They slaughtered anyone who stood in their way, cutting them into pieces of their axes.
1:37.3	The tremendous shock of the event is described by the Patriarch Fatios, and is sometimes compared to the Viking attack on the monastery of Lindisfan, England is 793.
1:49.0	The Vikings chose the timing of their attack well. Emperor Michael III and the main Byzantine army were away in Anatolia trying to reclaim lands lost to the Arabs, and so the city was poorly defended.
2:06.8	Fortunately for the Byzantines, the city walls were too well fortified, for the attackers to even consider a siege. Instead, they withdrew, just as quickly as they had arrived.
2:15.4	Later sources attribute their retreat to the Emperor's speedy return to the Capitol.
2:20.3	As the story goes, after Michael and Photius put the sacred veil of the Theoticus into the sea,
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