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The allies then turned against each other, and the ensuing military confrontation ended with a Byzantine victory. The Rus' withdrew and eastern Bulgaria was incorporated into the Byzantine Empire. In 927, a peace treaty had been signed between Bulgaria and Byzantium, ending many years of warfare and establishing forty years of peace.
Ivan Akimov, Sviatoslav's return from the Danube to his family in Kiev (1773). Tretyakov Gallery. The Pecheneg leader then decided to confer with Pretich and asked him whether he was Sviatoslav. Pretich admitted that he was only a general but warned the Pecheneg ruler that his unit was a vanguard of Sviatoslav's approaching army.
Oleg's murder of Lyut', son of Sveneld.Miniature from the Radziwiłł Chronicle (15th century). Shortly before his death, according to the Primary Chronicle (PVL) in the year 6478 (970), [2] Sviatoslav had appointed his sons over various parts of Kievan Rus': Yaropolk as prince of Kiev (modern Kyiv), Oleg as prince of Dereva, and Volodimer as prince of Novgorod.
Sviatoslav's mother, Olga, with her escort in Constantinople, a miniature from the late 11th century chronicle of John Skylitzes. Sviatoslav's appearance has been described very clearly by Leo the Deacon, who himself attended the meeting of Sviatoslav with John I Tzimiskes. Following Deacon's memories, Sviatoslav was a bright-eyed man of ...
He followed this up with a show of military strength, by sending a small force to raze a number of Bulgarian border posts in Thrace. [7] [8] Sviatoslav invading Bulgaria. Miniature from the Manasses Chronicle. It was a clear declaration of war, but Nikephoros' forces were largely preoccupied in the East.
Sviatoslav Igorevich gathered 10,000 or 60,000 troops and started his campaign in the early spring of 968. He met the Bulgarians, who were less than his army , near Silistra. The battle continued the whole day and until dark the Bulgarians seemed to have overwhelmed the Kievans, but, elated by Sviatoslav's personal example, the latter were ...
Sveneld (also called Svenald [1] or Sveinald; [2] Old Norse: Sveinaldr; Church Slavonic: Свѣналдъ, romanized: Svěnaldŭ [3] or Свѣнелдъ, Svěneldŭ), [4] is a semi-legendary 10th-century Varangian warlord in the service of Sviatoslav I and his family. Most of the information about Sveneld is scarce.
Feud of the Sviatoslavichi (c. 970s–980), after the death of Sviatoslav I Igorevich Kievan succession crisis of 1015–1019 (or Feud of the Volodimerovichi), after the death of Volodimer I Sviatoslavich "the Great"