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  Sviatoslav I of Kiev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Svyatoslav began by rallying the Khazars' East Slavic vassal tribes to his cause.
Svyatoslav's campaign weakened the Bulgarian statehood and left it vulnerable to the attacks of Basil the Bulgar-Slayer four decades later.
According to the Slavic chronicle, Sveneld attempted to warn Svyatoslav to avoid the Dnieper cataracts, but the prince slighted his wise advice and was ambushed and slayed by the Pechenegs when he tried to cross the cataracts near Khortitsa early in 972.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Svyatoslav_I   (2525 words)

  
 Philosopher of Real Cosmos
Until some days later Svyatoslav Nikolaevich asked me to convey to the USSR Academy of Sciences his suggestion for a joint project with India, namely that a group of Soviet scientists come to Kulu to work at the Institute of Himalayan researches.
Connected with Nikolai Konstantinovich by close filial ties, Svyatoslav Nikolaevich from time to time made himself as if go aside for a distance from a regal figure of his father to appreciate his greatness which he embodied as a person, an artist, a scientist and a thinker.
This Museum, according to the grantor’s plan, should have the status of a public one not to be subordinate to the Ministry of Culture and the State Museum of the Orient.
www.roerichs.com /Lng/en/Publications/Philosopher_of_real_Cosmos.htm   (6650 words)

  
 S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Oblivion Lost - Contest - Obsidian Series Day 3 - Grisly Silence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Svyatoslav coughed and choked, and Mihail switched to breathing through his mouth, though that did little to ease the smell.
Svyatoslav was holding his pocket watch and staring around with a wild look in his eyes.
Svyatoslav swore the curse that was lurking on Mihail’s tongue.
www.stalker-game.com /df_community_contest_story_read.php?id=180   (2482 words)

  
 S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Oblivion Lost - Contest - Obsidian Series Part 4 - Grisly Silence
Svyatoslav walked into the center of the clearing and held up his hands, waving them in a big circle around him.
Svyatoslav would lie cold and dead on the ground before long, food for the creatures that undoubtedly lived in the surrounding forest.
Svyatoslav was trying to creep through the field, probably to try to get to the edge of the forest before Mihail could shoot him.
www.stalker-game.com /df_community_contest_story_read.php?id=181   (2561 words)

  
 Svyatoslav Fedorov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Svyatoslav Nikolayevich Fedorov is the CEO of the Eye Microsurgery Center and the leader of the Party of Workers' Self-Rule, the most influential social-democratic movement in Russia.
Svyatoslav Fedorov was elected to the State Duma in a one-mandate district.
Svyatoslav Fedorov was officially registered as candidate on April 19 (1,735,375 signatures of support were submitted to the Central Electoral Commission).
www.cs.indiana.edu /~dmiguse/Russian/sfbio.html   (722 words)

  
 The Odessa Virtual Museum of Numismatic
In 968 at the request of the Byzantian emperor Svyatoslav has gone to a campaign against Bulgaria.
Greeks have paid to Svyatoslav a tribute but then have informed Pechenegs that Russian prince comes back home with a small team and with huge riches.
In unequal battle Svyatoslav was killed and the escaped part of his team has returned to Kiev led by old commander-voevode Sveneld.
www.museum.com.ua /project/eng/monet/svyatoslav/svyatoslav.html   (160 words)

  
 The Kiev Chronicle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Svyatoslav Olgovich, and Vladimir Igorevich, and Olstin with his Kovuans, and the archers ran after them, while Igor and Vsevolod went slowly ahead, and did not send forward their troops; but the Russians ahead of them struck down the Polovtses.
When Svyatoslav returned and was at Novgorod Syeverski, he heard that his brothers had gone against the Polovtses, without his knowledge, and he was displeased.
Svyatoslav was travelling in boats, and when he arrived in Chernigov, Byelovolod Prosovich came to him and told him what had happened with the Polovtses.
lamar.colostate.edu /~aksmith/HY438/igor.htm   (2461 words)

  
 Bulgaria.com - History of Bulgaria, Bulgarian Epic..   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In 968 AD Svyatoslav, the prince of Kiev, was hired for enormous sums of money to raid the northeastern Bulgarian lands with an army 60 000-strong.
Instead of continuing the war with the Russians (three quarters of the Bulgarian territory were still free with all military potential intact), Boris II concluded an anti-Byzantine treaty with Svyatoslav and made him a commander-in-chief of the joint Russo-Bulgarian troops.
In the summer of 970 AD Svyatoslav got into the saddle and, at the head of a huge army of Russians, Bulgarians, Pechenegs and Hungarians invaded Byzantium.
www.bulgaria.com /history/bulgaria/epic.html   (1330 words)

  
 The Song of Igor's Campaign,
Igor son of Svyatoslav and grandson of Oleg
All because the two brave sons of Svyatoslav, Igor and Vsevolod, stirred up the virulence 355 that had been all but curbed by their senior, dread Svyatoslav, the Great [Prince] of Kiev, [who kept the Kumans] in dread.
Bar the gates of the prairie with your sharp arrows to avenge the Russian land and the wounds of Igor, turbulent son of Svyatoslav.
Said Boyan, song-maker of the times of old, [of the campaigns] of the kogans -- 835 Svyatoslav, Yaroslav, Oleg: "Hard as it is for the head to be without shoulders bad it is for the body to be without head," -- 840 for the Russian land to be without Igor.
lib.sarbc.ru /koi/NABOKOW/slovo.txt   (3288 words)

  
 MUSICAL TALES
Their chief conductor, Kirill Kondrashin, decided to bring together three famous soloists and invited Svyatoslav Richter, David Oistrakh and Mstislav Rostropovich to play the Three Trios for piano, violin and cello by Ludwig van Beethoven.
Svyatoslav Richter was especially partial to the legendary German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
During the 1960s Svyatoslav Richter was asked to hold a chamber music festival in France and was free to choose the venue he wanted.
www.vor.ru /English/MTales/tales_010.html   (845 words)

  
 Princes of Kiev
Svyatoslav was only about three years old when his father Igor was murdered in 945, hence his mother St. Olga acted as Regent of Kiev until 964.
In 964, Svyatoslav took over the government, although his mother continued to administer home affairs until her death in 970.
Svyatoslav led Kievan Rus's military conquest of the Bulgars, responding to attacks by the Khazar tribe.
www3.sympatico.ca /robert.sewell/kiev.html   (1151 words)

  
 The Rus - DBA 108
During Olga's regency, her pagan son Grand Prince Svyatoslav launched a series of punitive campaigns (966-971 AD) southwest into Bulgaria, south against the Khazars to the Caspian Sea, up the Volga River on a punitive expedition against their trade competitors, the Volga Bulgars, and west to the sea of Azov (966-971 AD).
Svyatoslav's campaign to conquer Bulgaria resulted in the sack of Preslav and Philippolois, but came to an abrupt end in July 971 AD when the Byzantines intervened.
The ruler of Rus fell in an ambush and suffered the indignity of having his skull used as a Pecheneg drinking cup.
www.fanaticus.org /DBA/armies/dba108.html   (1311 words)

  
 Saint Syvatoslav
Could you please tell me if there is a Saint Svyatoslav or some other variation of this name.
His life is written up in the Patericon of the Kyivan Saints Lavra and he is especially commemorated on the Second Sunday of Lent and also on the Second Sunday after Pentecost.
A recently glorified Svyatoslav was the Kyivan Sovereign and King of Ukraine, Saint Svyatoslav II (not to be confused with the pagan son of St Olha, Svyatoslav the Warrior).
www.unicorne.org /orthodoxy/sept2003/svyatoslav.htm   (127 words)

  
 ForUm :: Svyatoslav Piskun puts obstacles to investigation of Yushchenko's poisoning case
Svyatoslav Piskun puts obstacles to investigation of Yushchenko's poisoning case
As Presidential Secretariat Head Oleg Rybachuk told a Friday news briefing in Kiev, Prosecutor General Svyatoslav Piskun did not notify President Victor Yushchenko about the need for carrying out an expertise in Ukraine, which was necessary for starting an investigation into the President's poisoning.
Replying to the journalists' question about whether this will result in the President's steps with regard to Svyatoslav Piskun, Oleg Rybachuk said such steps may be expected, same as the Verkhovna Rada's response.
en.for-ua.com /news/2005/09/23/172256.html   (367 words)

  
 Artist Profiles
For the past two years Svetlana and Svyatoslav Levin have performed charitable piano concerts to benefit orphans around the world.
The featured performers will be recent winners of the Baldwin Piano Award presented by Svyatoslav and Svetlana Levin, a husband-and-wife team of concert pianists.
In 1995, Svyatoslav and Svetlana (who go by Slava and Lana) retired from concert performance.
www.chifoundation.org /benefit_concert.htm   (531 words)

  
 The Odessa Virtual Museum of Numismatic
After death of prince Svyatoslav in the Kievan Rus ruled three his sons.
In the intestine brother's war younger Vladimir has won.
Prince ordered to give on its maintenance the tenth part from his incomes why it has received name Desyatinnaya.
www.museum.com.ua /project/eng/monet/vladimir/vladimir.html   (254 words)

  
 Svyatoslav N. Fyodorov, MD (Deceased)
He was always working, always thinking, always trying to make things better.” —Robert H. Marmer, MD View Video
Svyatoslav Fyodorov, known to his friends as Slava, began his professional life in the outer reaches of the Soviet Union, but was transferred to Moscow as his reputation grew.
As the developer of the Sputnik lens, Fyodorov was a pioneer in IOL implantation.
www.ascrs.org /Awards/Svyatoslav-N-Fyodorov-MD.cfm   (206 words)

  
 КАМЕИ ...
This site presents works of Svyatoslav Nikitenko – the artist who revives the special direction of this art – the carving of Christian cameos-icons.
The Christian glyptic was conceived in Byzantium and was common in many countries including Ancient Rus.
Cameos of Svyatoslav Nikitenko are not just carved miniatures, these are real icons which must guard their owners.
www.cameos.com.ua   (174 words)

  
 YouTube - SVYATOSLAV RICHTER (Russian motion picture 1968) Pt.1 of 8
SVYATOSLAV RICHTER (Russian motion picture 1968) Pt.1 of 8
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www.youtube.com /watch?v=2QB_JW82zOI   (219 words)

  
 Belarus News & Reports 2004-06   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
For many people this was the first time that they heard about the position of sexual minorities in our country," Svyatoslav Sementsov, Board member of Belarusian NGO Vstrecha said.
Although homosexuality is not a criminal offense since 1994, homophobia is widespread and instances of harassment occur in all spheres of Belarusian society.
Svyatoslav Sementsov is Board member of Belarusian HIV/AIDS-prevention LGBT NGO Vstrecha; creator of national Internet portal for LGBT people (http://www.pride.by); Co-president of national LGBT NGO TEMA.
www.globalgayz.com /belarus-news.html   (4110 words)

  
 Pravda.RU Moscow asks New Delhi to return the remains of Russian painter Svyatoslav Roerich
Minister of State for External Affairs Ajit Kumar Panja told parliament on Thursday India was considering the request from Russia, which wants to rebury the remains at St. Petersburg in accordance with the artist's will.
Moscow has asked New Delhi to return the remains of Russian portrait and landscape painter Svyatoslav Roerich, who died and was buried at his southern India estate in 1993.
The opinions and views of the authors do not always coincide with the point of view of PRAVDA.Ru's editors.
newsfromrussia.com /world/2000/12/01/1233.html   (1741 words)

  
 ForUm :: Svyatoslav Piskun owes Smeshko two hryvnias
ForUm :: Svyatoslav Piskun owes Smeshko two hryvnias
Pechersky district court of Kyiv decided that information, which was spread by the former Prosecutor General Svyatoslav Piskun about Irog Smeshko’s (ex-chairman of Security Service) involvement in weapon smuggling, does not represent the facts.
The court obliged Piskun to make amends at the amount of two hryvnias (45 cents) to Smeshko for moral damage.
en.for-ua.com /news/2005/10/19/163504.html   (311 words)

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