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Information about Igor comes mostly from the Primary Chronicle, which states that Igor was the son of Rurik: 6378–6387 (870–879). On his deathbed, Rurik bequeathed his realm to Oleg, who belonged to his kin, and entrusted to Oleg's hands his son Igor', for he was very young. 6388–6390 (880–882).
[12] [13] Little is known about her life before her marriage to Prince Igor I of Kiev and the birth of their son, Sviatoslav. [citation needed] According to Alexey Karpov, a specialist in the history of ancient Russia, Olga was no more than 15 years old at the time of her marriage. Igor was the son and heir of Rurik, founder of the Rurik dynasty.
Igor of Kiev Exacting Tribute from the Drevlians, by Klavdiy Lebedev (1852–1916) The Drevlians initially fervently opposed the Kievan Rus'. According to a number of chronicles, in the times of Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv (supposedly, founders of Kiev) the Drevlians had their own princely rule and were frequently at war with the Polyani.
The Church of St. Igor of Chernigov in Moscow. Igor II Olgovich [a] (died September 19, 1147) was Prince of Chernigov and Grand Prince of Kiev (1146). [1] He was a son of Oleg I of Chernigov. He was the chosen successor of his brother, Vsevolod II of Kiev. Though his brother had extracted promises of loyalty from his Kievan subjects, Igor and ...
According to the Primary Chronicle, Oleg died in 912 and his successor, Igor of Kiev, ruled from then until his assassination in 945. The Schechter Letter , [ 26 ] a document written by a Jewish Khazar , a contemporary of Romanus I Lecapenus , describes the activities of a Rus' warlord named HLGW ( Hebrew : הלגו ), usually transcribed as ...
The Rus'–Byzantine War of 941 took place during the reign of Igor of Kiev. [ n 3 ] The first naval attack was driven off and followed by another, successful offensive in 944. [ 8 ] The outcome was the Rus'–Byzantine Treaty of 945 .
The Rus'–Byzantine Treaty, between the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII and Igor I of Kiev, was concluded either in 944 or 945.It was a result of the Rus'-Byzantine War of 941 undertaken by Kievan Rus' against Constantinople.
In 1208–1211, Ingvar sent his son to assist Daniil Romanovich in his struggle against the sons of Igor Sviatoslavich of Novgorod-Seversk. In 1212, Ingvar and Mstislav Romanovich attacked Vsevolod Sviatoslavich and captured Kiev. After a battle near Belgorod, Ingvar voluntarily ceded Kiev to Mstislav Romanovich and left for Lutsk. He died in 1220.