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	kiev - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		Kiev (Київ, Kyiv, in Ukrainian; Киев, Kiev, in Russian) is the capital and largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper river.
		Historically, Kiev is one of the most ancient (probably 1550 years old) and important cities of the region, the center of Rus civilization, survivor of numerous wars, purges and genocides.
		Kiev was probably founded in the 5th century and functioned as a trading post between Constantinople and Scandinavia.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/kiev (2741 words)

	Sviatoslav II of Kiev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sviatoslav Yaroslavich (1027 – December 27, 1076) was the Prince (Kniaz) of Chernigov from 1054 to 1073 and Grand Prince (Velikiy Knyaz) of Kiev from 1073 until his death.
		Sviatoslav's first wife was named Kilikia, a lady of unknown origin, but possibly a princess from the Caucasus.
		In 1072 Sviatoslav married Oda, daughter of a certain "Count Lippold", and the sister of Burkhard, provost of Trier.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sviatoslav_II_of_Kiev (377 words)

	Kiev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Kiev (;), also Kyiv, is the capital and largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper river.
		Historically, Kiev is one of the most ancient and important cities of the region, the center of Rus' civilization, survivor of numerous wars, purges and genocides.
		Kiev's noteworthy architecture includes government buildings such as the Mariyinsky Palace (designed and constructed from 1745–1752, then reconstructed in 1870) and the sweeping Ministry of Foreign Affairs building; several Orthodox churches and church complexes such as the Pecherska Lavra, St. Sophia's, St.
	kiev.mindbit.com (3119 words)

	Upto11.net - Wikipedia Article for Kiev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Until 1169 Kiev was the capital of the Kievan Rus'.
		Kiev is known as a green city, with two botanical gardens and numerous large and small parks.
		Kiev's noteworthy architecture includes government buildings such as the Mariyinsky Palace (designed and constructed from 1745andndash;1752, then reconstructed in 1870) and the sweeping Ministry of Foreign Affairs building; several Orthodox churches and church complexes such as the Pecherska Lavra, St.
	www.upto11.net /generic_wiki.php?q=kiev (3105 words)

	Kiev City History
		Olegs words about Kiev became proverbial "Here will be the mother of Rus cities." This was the beginning of the Kievan Rus' state which lasted until the year 1240 when the Mongols (Tatars) invaded.
		The 1500th anniversary celebration of Kiev, which was founded in year 482.
		During 2001 Kiev was visited by Pope John Paul who met Kievans at the National Philharmonic Building.
	www.kievcityguide.net /history.htm (1338 words)

	Columbia Encyclopedia- Sviatoslav - AOL Research & Learn
		972, duke of Kiev (945–72), son of Igor and of St. Olga.
		Then, as an ally of the Byzantine Empire, which was at war with the Bulgars, Sviatoslav defeated the Bulgars of the Danube (968) and further extended Kievan control in the Balkans.
		He was forced to give up the Balkan lands (971), however, in a war with the Byzantine emperor John I. On his way back to Kiev, Sviatoslav was slain by the Pechenegs (or Patzinaks).
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	Kiev - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		Kiev is an important industrial, scientific, educational and cultural centre of Eastern Europe.
		Kiev will host the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 on May 19 and May 21 in the Palace of Sports.
		Kiev's noteworthy architecture includes government buildings such as the Mariyinsky Palace (designed and constructed from 1745–1752, then reconstructed in 1870) and the sweeping Ministry of Foreign Affairs building; several Orthodox churches and church complexes such as the Pecherska Lavra, St.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=36851 (2876 words)

	kiev apartment, rent apartment kiev, apartment daily kiev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Kiev is becoming the political center of the powerful east Slavonic state – Kiev Russ and lullaby of the Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian nations.
		In the period of her son Sviatoslav being in power the uniting of all east Slavonic lands was finished.
		In the XVIII century Kiev becomes to be the symbol of Orthodoxy of the whole large Russian Empire.
	www.bestkievapartment.com /About_Kiev.htm (1762 words)

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		Sviatoslav's position as grand prince was precarious, so much so that although his own first cousins did not openly challenge him, leaving that to the ambitious princes of the northeast, the other Olgovichi did not heed him unless it was in their interest to do so.
		Kiev was the titular capital of the south Rus principalities, and its grand prince appropriately shows concern for the lands lying on the borders with the steppe, which were subjected to invasions, according to the chronicle, from the armies of Gzak and Konchak.
		Sviatoslav concludes his rebuke of Igor and Vsevolod, accusing them of desiring to carve up the glory of their ancestors and share the glory that is yet to be won.
	faculty.washington.edu /dwaugh/rus/texts/igorcm.htm (13513 words)

	Flights To Kiev
		Sviatoslav I, Prince of Kiev (c.945 - 972) was the warrior Varangian prince of Kiev, who carved out for himself the largest state in Europe and finally moved his capital to Pereyaslavets in Bulgaria in 969.
		Sviatoslav was notorious as a stubborn pagan who rejected the Christianity, which had been embraced by his mother ca 945.
		Then, as an ally of the Byzantine Empire, which was at war with the Bulgars, Sviatoslav decisively defeated the Bulgars of the Danube (968), thereby paving the way for victories of Basil the Bulgar-Slayer.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/63/flights-to-kiev.html (1827 words)

	Kievan Rus Database (Prince: Yaropolk Sviatoslavich) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Blud finally persuaded Yaropolk to flee Kiev by telling him that Kievans had supposedly established relations with Vladimir and were about to deliver Yaropolk over to him.
		Yaropolk fled to the stronghold in Rodina on the southern frontier of the Kiev region, but there, besieged by Vladimir's forces, he was overtaken by famine and other troubles.
		Ioakim's Chronicle relates that when Vladimir set out against Kiev, Yaropolk sent his envoys to him to persuade him to make peace and at the same time dispatched his army to the land of the Krivichians.
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		It is precisely the notion that the prince is both physically and philosophically identified with the kingship, and the kingship with the "state," that the boiars seek to point out in their collective interpretation of Sviatoslav's premonition of his own death.
		Sviatoslav's speech is punctuated by frequent digressions in the old style that serve to contrast the pettiness of present princes with their illustrious, heroic predecessors.
		The poet's method is one of contrasting two ages, the heroic age of the first princes Oleg, Igor, Sviatoslav and Vladimir (the latter died in 1015) with that of the successor princes also named Oleg, Sviatoslav, Igor and Vladimir.
	faculty.washington.edu /dwaugh/rus/texts/igorintr.htm (2169 words)

	US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : Sviatoslav III of Kiev
		He succeeded in taking the Kievan throne from Yaroslav II, and ruled Kiev alongside Rurik Rostislavich until his death.
		This biography of a member of a European royal house is a stub.
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	encyclopedia.us-bazaar.com /?title=Sviatoslav_III_of_Kiev (154 words)

	Ostler Family History - aqwg26 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He died 15 Jul 1015 in Berestovo, Kiev, Ukraine, Russia and was buried in Church Of The Ti, Kiev, Ukraine, Russia.
		Grand Duke Jaroslav I OF KIEV was born 976/980 and died 20 Feb 1054.
		Grand Duke Sviatoslav I OF KIEV was born about 915 and died 972.
	genealogy.homeip.net /ostler/aqwg26.htm (975 words)

	Vladimir I of Kiev Summary
		Vladimir married the Byzantine princess Anna and was baptized, with the Byzantine emperor as his godfather, by the bishop of the Greek city of Kherson, whose clergy came, at Vladimir's command, to christen the Kievan peoples in the Dnieper River in the year 988.
		Actually, Polotsk was a key fortress on the way to Kiev, and the capture of Polotsk and Smolensk facilitated the taking of Kiev (980), where he slew Yaropolk by treachery, and was proclaimed konung, or kagan, of all Kievan Rus.
		Returning to Kiev in triumph, he destroyed pagan monuments and established many churches, starting with the splendid Church of the Tithes (989) and monasteries on Mt.
	www.bookrags.com /Vladimir_I_of_Kiev (2156 words)

	Devenport Family and Kinfolks - pafg129 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sviatoslav Grand Duke or Kiev [Parents] was born about 915 in of Kiev, Ukraine, Russia.
		Igor Prince of Kiev [Parents] was born about 875 in of Kiev, Ukraine, Russia.
		Rurik Prince of Russia was born about 845 in of Kiev, Ukraine, Russia.
	www.nmol.com /~jdport/devenport/pafg129.htm (148 words)

	Svyatoslav I Igoryevich of Kiev
		Sviatoslav I, Prince of Kiev (c.945 - 972) reigned as a Varangian prince of Kie, transferring his capital to Pereyaslavets in 969.
		He was forced to give up the Balkan lands (971), however, in a war with the Byzantine Emperor John I. His unorthodox appearance was noted by the Byzantines, who described him as having shaved one side of his head, and having a single large gold earring.
		Sviatoslav was killed in battle with the Pechenegs in 972.
	www.delmars.com /family/perrault/7206.htm (232 words)

	Wikinfo \| Yaroslav I the Wise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Yaroslav I the Wise (Old Norse : Jarisleif) (978-1054) was thrice prince of Novgorod and Kiev, uniting the two principalities for a time under his rule.
		The son of Vladimir the Great of Kiev and the nun Ragnilda of Polotsk, Yaroslav married Anna, Ingigerd Olofsdotter, daughter of king Olaf Skötkonung of Sweden and later to widowed Astrid Olofsdotter of Sweden, another daughter of Olof Skötkonung.
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	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Yaroslav_I_the_Wise (215 words)

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		The Khazars conquered the Volga Bulgars and the Crimea, levied tribute from the eastern Slavs, and warred with the Arabs, Persians, and Armenians.
		The Slavs, especially those in the area now known as the Ukraine, were engaged in almost constant warfare with the Khazars and finally, by 1016 A.D., destroyed the Khazar government and took a large portion of Khazar territory.
		Ain Russian lands after the fall of Kiev in 1240, there was a period of dissension and disunity.
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		In the spring of 972, while Svyatoslav was returning to Kievan Rus with asmall retinue, he was ambushed and killed by the Pechenegs (a Turkicpeople) near the cataracts of the Dnieper River.
		But neither Yaroslav,who gained control of Kiev only after a bitter struggle against hisbrother Svyatopolk (1015-19), nor his successors in Kiev were able toprovide lasting political stability within the enormous realm.
		Thepolitical history of Rus is one of clashing separatist and centralizingtrends inherent in the contradiction between local settlement andcolonization, on the one hand, and the hegemony of the clan elder, rulingfrom Kiev, on the other.
	www.brinkfamily.net /tree/p22.htm (5934 words)

	Yaroslav I Vladimirovich of Kiev Grand Duke of Kiev
		In his testament, Yaroslav sought to prevent a power struggle among his five sons by dividing his empire among them and enjoining the younger four sons to obey the eldest, Izyaslav, who was to succeed his father as grand prince of Kiev.
		Anna Yaroslavna,also known as Anne of Kiev, was married to Henry I of France.
		Elizabeth was married to Harald III of Norway and became known as Ellisif of Gårdarike.
	www.delmars.com /family/perrault/7204.htm (646 words)

	Western_Turks
		Emerging in the 7th cent, the Khazars extended their control, during 8th-10th centuries, from the northern shores of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea to the Urals and as far westward as Kiev.
		The Khazar empire fell when Sviatoslav, duke of Kiev, defeated its army in AD 965." The Khazars (or Chazars) are believed by some to have been the ancestors of many East European Jews.
		After unsuccessfully besieging Kiev (968) and killing the Kievan duke Sviatoslav (972), they were defeated (1036) by Yaroslav and moved to the plains of the lower Danube.
	www.findthelinks.com /history/Huns_Turks/western_Turks.htm (1459 words)

	Vladimir, I Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		The youngest son of Grand Prince Sviatoslav Igorevich of Kiev and a servant girl, Vladimir distinguished himself first as his father's governor in Novgorod, where he had been appointed in 969.
		Although Vladimir stayed out of the Balkans, he regained the territory of the Viatichi and Radimichi in the east (981-982, 984) and thus reunited all eastern Slavs under Kiev.
		In the west he recovered a number of Galician towns from Poland (981) and conquered the territory of the Lithuanian latvigs (983).
	www.bookrags.com /biography/vladimir-i (680 words)

	Biography: Olga and Vladimir of Kiev, rulers (15 July 1015) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Vladimir, great-grandson of Rurik (the traditional founder of the Russian state), grandson of Olga, and youngest of the three sons of Sviatoslav of Kiev, was born in 956 and was made Prince of Novgorod in 970.
		He put away his former collection of pagan wives and mistresses, destroyed idols and pagan temples, built churches and monasteries and schools, brought in Greek missionaries to educate his people, abolished or greatly restricted capital punishment, and gave lavish alms to the poor.
		In converting his people, however, he was willing to resort to military methods (all his life he had survived by fighting), and some of his former pagan wives and their sons raised an armed rebellion against him, in the course of which he was killed near Kiev, 15 July 1015.
	elvis.rowan.edu /~kilroy/JEK/07/15.html (419 words)

	Crimea information - Search.com
		In the mid 10th century eastern Crimea was conquered by Sviatoslav I of Kiev and became part of Kievan Russian Tmutarakan.
		In 988 Vladimir I of Kiev also captured the Byzantine town of Chersones and later converted to Christianity there.
		In the 13th century the Genoese seized the settlements which their rivals the Venetians had made on the Crimean coasts and established themselves at Cembalo, Soldaia, and Caffa.
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/Crimea (2169 words)

	tncmusic.net - Articles - Featured Stories - Sviatoslav Richter Live In Kiev! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sviatoslav Richter, undeniably one of the century's greatest pianists, was a legend long before he died on August 1, 1997.
		Born on March 20, 1915 in Zhymomyr, Ukraine he studied at the Moscow Conservatory under Heinrich Neuhaus and became one of only a handful of musicians who could transcend the art of interpretation by becoming one with the composer.
		"Richter played in Kiev all through his career, and in the late 1950s and 1960s the local radio engineers assiduously taped his recitals.
	24.234.188.77 /article_info.php?articles_id=9 (1064 words)

	Sviatoslav - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		972, duke of Kiev (945-72), son of Igor and of St. Olga.
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		David Oistrakh, violin Mstislav Rostropovich, cello; Sviatoslav Richter, piano; Herbert von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and George Szell, Cleveland Orchestra.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Sviatosl.html (303 words)

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