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 Chernigov, Russia (Capital) - LoveToKnow 1911
CHERNIGOV, a town of Russia, capital of the above government, on the right bank of the Desna, nearly half a mile from the river, 141 m.
It is an archiepiscopal see and possesses a cathedral of the 11th century.
In 907 the city is mentioned in the treaty of Oleg as next in importance to Kiev, and in the 11 th century it became the capital of the principality of Syeversk and an important commercial city.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Chernigov,_Russia_(Capital)   (134 words)

  
 Primary Chronicle
With all of these, Oleg attacked on horseback and in ships, and the number of his vessels was two thousand.
The tsars kissed the cross, while Oleg and his men took oaths in accordance with Russian law, swearing by their weapons and by their god Perun, as well as by Volos, the god of cattle.
Oleg then said, "Fashion sails of silk for the Rus, and sails of linen for the Slavs".
www.uoregon.edu /~kimball/chronicle.htm   (3513 words)

  
 Kievan Rus Database (Prince: Oleg Rurikovich)
The fact that Oleg was not a Rurikid suggests that he may have held a position similar to that of the Khazar bek.
After the attack on Byantium failed, Igor returned to Kiev and Oleg returned to Khazaria, and eventually died (an old man) seeking new conquests in the southern Caspian, and apparently rejected by the young prince Igor.
Oleg's army against Constantinople was made up of Ilmen Slavs, Krivichy, Drevlyane, Radimichy, Polyane, Severyane, Horvatians (ally), Duleby (ally), Tivertsy, Chud, and Merya -- who were either his subjects or his allies.
members.aol.com /ingigerthr/Prince_Oleg_Rurikovich.html   (563 words)

  
 Bryansk, Russia
It was a possession of elder line of Chernigov branch of the Rurikovich dynasty, but in the late 13th century Bryansk passed to princes of Smolensk.
In the mid 14th century princes of Chernigov ruled again in Bryansk but soon it joined The Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Roman I (in Chernigov from 1263) - 1245 - 1285
www.creekin.net /c6217-n153-bryansk-russia.html   (185 words)

  
 Oleg of Novgorod - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oleg gradually took control of the Dnieper cities, captured Kiev (previously held by other Varangians, Askold and Dir) and finally moved his capital from Novgorod there.
Georgy Vernadsky even identified Oleg of the Schechter Letter with Igor's otherwise anonymous eldest son, whose widow Predslava is mentioned in the Russo-Byzantine treaty of 944.
Mosin proposed that HLGW was a different person from Oleg and was an independent prince in Tmutarakan; the existence of an independent Rus state in Tmutarakan in the first half of the tenth century is rejected by virtually all modern scholars.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oleg_of_Novgorod   (1412 words)

  
 Russian geography and history: Kievian Russia
According to the Primary Chronicle, Oleg was an effective ruler of the first Russian State, that of Kiev, who was in power from 882 until 912.
Oleg's successor, prince Igor, ruled Kievian Russia from 913 until his death in 945.
Iaroslav knew well what civil war was and, intending to prevent such in the future, divided the lands between the brothers so, that possessions of each of them were situated in different parts of the country.
www.guidetorussia.org /geopolitics/kiev-russia.shtml   (6720 words)

  
 Prince Oleg Attacks the Greeks
Oleg commanded his warriors to make wheels, which they attached to the ships, and when the wind was favourable they spread the sails and bore down upon the city from the open country.
Thus the emperors Leo and Alexander made peace with Oleg, and after agreeing upon the tribute and mutually binding themselves by oath, they kissed the cross, and invited Oleg and his men to swear an oath likewise.
Oleg gave orders that silken sails should be made for the Russians and linen ones for the Slavs, and his demand was satisfied.
www.angelfire.com /pro2/politcentr/prince-oleg.html   (955 words)

  
 THE VOICE OF RUSSIA [ PRINCE OLEG VOLKONSKY ]
Oleg Volkonsky was born in Poland shortly before the beginning of the Second World War.
Oleg’s friends knew that he was Russian, but they didn’t know a lot about his family background.
That short visit, which was planned for a couple of months, ended up actually in seven years of work for Radio Liberty.” Oleg Volkonsky devoted most of his working life to a career of a radio broadcaster, working for the Russian Service of the BBC and later, for the Voice of America.
www.vor.ru /English/People/programm.phtml?act=15   (2188 words)

  
 Don Kosaken Chor Serge Jaroff: George Keikuatov
Yuriy Vladimirovich was born on 24 June 1900 in Chernigov, Imperial Russia, in his family estate called Bigach.
He never lost his sense of humor and love for people, nature, and for beautiful things in life, notwithstanding the fact that because of the Russian Civil War, upon loosing everything, Yuriy was a witness to atrocities by the Reds directed against his immediate family.
Once in Chernigov in 1918 - he saw how his uncle and cousins were bound by barbed wire and buried alive.
www.russia-in-us.com /Music/Collections/Zingg/member/l_keikuatov.htm   (982 words)

  
 Saint Luke Orthodox Church - Saints - Saints by Day - January - 1st
Prince Oleg had killed his brother Izyaslav and attacked Rostov and Suzdal', which belonged to Prince Mstislav.
Oleg in fear fled to Ryazan', and Saint Mstislav set free the captives, went through the Murom lands and he then reconciled Oleg with GreatPrince Svyatopolk (1093-1114) and with his own father, Vladimir Monomakh.
In 1127 Saint Mstislav gave an oath to defend the Chernigov prince Yaroslav, banished by a nephew.
www.stlukeorthodox.com /html/saints/april/15th.cfm   (2718 words)

  
 The History of Moscow
Possibly this was affected by aggravation of conflict between Dolgoruky and the prince of Chernigov.
Moscow was a strong point of princes of Rostov and Suzdal and later of the Grand prince of Vladimir in their confrontation with Chernigov and Ryazan.
The prince of Ryazan Oleg derived benefit of this and seized Moscow volost of Lopasnya, the Novgorodians were at enmity with the Grand prince and even in Moscow the boyars quarreled with each other.
faculty.oxy.edu /richmond/csp8/history_of_moscow.htm   (4119 words)

  
 Chernigov Ukraine Information. Chernigov history.
At that time Prince Chornyy was at odds with the Grand Duke Oleg of Kiev and he could not expect any help.
Chernigov is rich in ancient and historical sights.
The cathedral was a religious center of Chernigov principality.
www.chernigov-ukraine.info /chernigov-history.htm   (648 words)

  
 Ukraine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Igor was reputedly the son of Rurik (see Novgorod) and Oleg his regent and guardian, but Khazar documents (the Schechter Letter) refer to Oleg as contemporaneous with Emperor Romanus (940's) and places his death around 941.
Constantine Zuckerman theorized that Oleg continued to rule in conjunction with Igor, and that the Khazar documents reflect a struggle between the two.
It was a sub-Principality under Chernigov, remanded to the descendants of Gr.
www.hostkingdom.net /ukraine.html   (2984 words)

  
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The Holy Nobleborn Prince of Chernigov Michael, son of Vsevolod Ol'govich the Dark-Red (+1212), was noted from childhood for his piety and mildness.
Holy Nobleborn Prince Oleg Romanovich of Bryansk (in Baptism Leontii) was grandson of the holy Martyr-prince Michael of Chernigov.
According to the chronicle histories it is known, that noble prince Oleg in 1274 together with his father, prince Roman Mikhailovich of Bryansk, participated in a war against Lithuania.
www.missionstclare.com /english/people/sep20o.html   (2998 words)

  
 The Testament of Vladimir Monomakh.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Then Oleg came from Vladimir, and I invited him to dinner with my father at the Red Palace in Chernigov, and I gave my father three hundred grivnas of gold.
We left Chernigov on the day of St. Boris, and rode through the Polovtsians in a company of not more than a hundred together with the women and children.
At Chernigov, I even bound wild horses with my bare hands or captured ten or twenty live horses with the lasso, and besides that, while riding along the Ros, I caught these same wild horses barehanded.
www.yurchenko.org /texts/hist_monomakh.html   (3219 words)

  
 oleg clawyerini perfume   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Oleg of lawyersk, lord of lawyersk 1207, died circa 1217.
Oleg the Fair, prince of Riazan and lawyersk 1252-1258.
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 The Red Kaganate - Russo-Polovetz Wars
1094 - Oleg Svyatoslavich unites with the Polovtsi to expell Vladimir Monomakh from Chernigov.
This is the begining of a continuing intermittent aliance between the Polovtsi and the Knyazi of Chernigov against the Knyazi of Kiev who lay claim to rulership of all the Rus.
As allies of Chernigov, they destroy the Prinicipality of Pereyaslavl, take Kursk, decimate Ryazan.
www.geocities.com /kaganate/plvtstml.html   (1068 words)

  
 A summary of the information in the sources regarding the origins of the Kievan state
Oleg's attack on Constantinople, from Kiev and using a variety of Slavic and Finnic tribes as allies (NB: The dates and the treaty included in the chronicle are not accurate: the treaty is apparently one that was concluded decades later.)
Oleg's treaty with Byzantium (no. 2) precisely dated and apparently genuine.
Note predominance of Scandinavian names among the Rus'; the naming of Kiev, Chernigov and Pereiaslavl as key cities of the Rus'; the indication of some Christianization.
faculty.washington.edu /dwaugh/hstam443/K-chron.html   (561 words)

  
 Kievan Rus Database (1097)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In 1097 traveling from Icleand to Rus was still a common practice.
The first congress of the princes: all of the princes of Kievan Rus met at Lyubech (NW of Chernigov) and decided to divide their lands into patrimonial estates.
Sviatopolk Iziaslavich of Kiev and Vladimir Monomakh invited Oleg of Chernigov to come to Kiev for a conference.
members.aol.com /eustaxij/1097.html   (58 words)

  
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In his famous Instruction to his own children, Monomakh mentions that he conducted 83 military campaigns and 19 times made peace with the Polovtsi.
At first he waged war against the steppe jointly with his cousin Oleg of Chernigov, but after Vladimir was sent by his father to rule Chernigov and Oleg made peace with the Polovtsi to retake that city from him, they parted company.
Since that time, Vladimir and Oleg were bitter enemies who would often engage in internecine wars.
www.happydogsclup.com /sdmc_Vladimir_Monomakh   (530 words)

  
 Ray's Genealogy Page - Descendency Chart of Gertrude de Gand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Oleg Mikahil of Chernigov ; abt 1058 - 8/1/1115 and Theophano Mouzalonissa
– Svyatoslav II of Chernigov ; abt 1120 - 7/24/1194 and Mariya Vasilkovna of Polotsk
– Vladimir Davidovich Duke of Chernigov ; abt 1101 - 7/1151
209.190.235.73 /genes/db/descend.cfm?id=13775   (494 words)

  
 Kiev Escort - Kiev Ukraine with Kiev City Tours
Glukhov was first mentioned in the Ipatievsky Chronicle in 1152 when the town was captured by Polovtsy, though there are archaeological evidences that the town was founded much earlier and in 1992 it celebrated its millennial anniversary.
In 1185 Prince Igor (grandson of Chernigov Prince Oleg) started from Novgorod-Seversky his military campaign against Polovtsy (they were cattle raisers and warriors).
In 1781 Romny became a “uezd” (district) centre of Chernigov area, than in 1796 of - Little Russia (the official name of Ukraine in the XVII-XIX cc.) and in 1802 “uezd” centre of Poltava area.
www.kievcitytours.com /kiev-city-tours7.html   (5225 words)

  
 News | TimesDaily.com | TimesDaily | Florence, AL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
According to the Primary Chronicle, the Severians, having paid tribute to the Khazars, along with the neighboring Polans, were conquered by Oleg of Novgorod (also referred to as Oleh), who incorporated their lands into the new principality of Kievan Rus'.
By the time of Yaroslav the Wise (1019-1054), the Severian peoples had lost most of their distinctness, and the areas of Severia along the upper course of the Desna River came to be controlled from Chernihiv.
In 1096, Oleg of Chernigov (also referred to as Oleh) created a large Severian Principality, which stretched as far as the upper reaches of the Oka River.
www.timesdaily.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Severia   (443 words)

  
 Medieval Sourcebook: The Novgorod Chronicle: Selected Annals
The same year the sons of Oleg defeated the Lithuanians, and did to death seven hundred and a thousand of them.
And thence they sent their emissaries to the [Princes] of Ryazan, a sorceress and two men with her, demanding from them one-tenth of everything; of men and rprincesl and horses@f everything one-tenth.
And the [Princes] of Ryazan, George Ingvor's brother, Oleg, Roman Ingvorevicb, and those of Murom and Pronsk, without letting them into their towns, went out to meet them to Voronazh.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/novgorod1.html   (3269 words)

  
 Oleg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It probably derives from the Scandinavian name Helgi, derived from Proto-Norse *Hailaga (Holy, or Blessed).
Oleg the Great, prince of Riazan 1349-1371, 1372-1380, 1382-1402
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oleg   (246 words)

  
 Ancestors of Oleg Mikahil Svyatoslavich Duke Of /Chernigov/
Ancestors of Oleg Mikahil Svyatoslavich Duke Of /Chernigov/
Marriage: (1): Miss Ossulokovna Princess Of The /Cumans/ Abt 1089, Of Chernigov, Chernigov, Ukraine
Oleg married Miss Ossulokovna Princess Of The /Cumans/, daughter of Ossoluk Khan Of The /Kumans/, about 1089 of Chernigov, Chernigov, Ukraine.
genealogy.harmonicflight.net /legacy/2/19825.htm   (106 words)

  
 Russian history - The Lay of the Host of Igor
A prince of Novgorod-Seversk, he was the grandson of the famous Oleg of Chernigov and the cousin of Grand Prince Svyatoslav of Kiev.
The Ol'govichi (Oleg's descendants), did not participate in this victory.
But Igor and his brother Vsevolod, Prince of Trubchevsk and Kursk, hearing of the Polovetsians' defeat, undertook a campaign of their own against the Polovetsians, toward the Donets River.
www.artrusse.ca /History/host_igor.htm   (1648 words)

  
 ON IGOR'S CAMPAIGN
The discourse on Igor's campaign, Igor son of Sviatoslav, grandson of Oleg.
Kiev, brothers, groaned with sorrow, and Chernigov, with constant attacks.
And all the brave sons of Oleg prepare to join the fray.
faculty.washington.edu /dwaugh/rus/texts/igortxt2.htm   (3110 words)

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