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Ancient Lyubech in Ukraine: Ancestral home of Volodymyr the Great, Gateway...
Lyubech is currently a rural settlement in Chernihiv Oblast, northern Ukraine. It is located 200 kilometers north of Kyiv, and near the border with...
He, Who Fights Alone: Volodymyr Monomakh, fearless hunter and Kyiv Rus’...
Volodymyr Monomakh was born a year before the death of Yaroslav “the Wise.” Vsevolod, Volodymyr’s father, was Yaroslav’s youngest son. The Primary Chronicle records...
Pereyaslavl, Volodymyr Monomakh’s native city: His decisive battles against Polovtsians
Primary Chronicle for the year 1054 states: “Yaroslav, Great Prince of Rus', passed away. While he was yet alive, he admonished his sons with...
Pereyaslavl, Kyiv Rus’ Forpost Against Asiatic Nomads: Volodymyr the Great’s fortresses...
M. P. Kuchera (1922-1999) was a Ukrainian archaeologist of Czech origin, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine, and Leading...
Kyiv controlled the Kerch Strait in 11th century AD: Stone of...
Stone of Tmutarakan was discovered on the Taman Peninsula in 1792. It was the time when the famous English traveler Edward D. Clarke was passing through...
Original Rus was centered in Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Pereyaslavl only; Even...
Academician Borys Rybakov (1908-2001) was a Soviet and Russian archeologist and historian who held a Chair in Russian history at Moscow University since 1939,...
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