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Sviatoslav, in the spring of 972 returning …
Years: 972 - 972
Sviatoslav, in the spring of 972 returning with a small retinue from his successful campaign against the Bulgarian Empire to Kievan Rus, is ambushed and killed by the Pechenegs (a Turkic people) near the cataracts of the Dnieper River.
According to the Primary Chronicle, the Pecheneg Khan Kurya makes a chalice from his skull, a traditional steppe nomad custom.
The greatest of the Varangian princes of early Russo-Ukrainian history, Sviatoslav is to be the last non-Christian ruler of the Kievan state.
His three heirs will in 976 initiate a civil war for their father’s vacant throne.
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- Polytheism (“paganism”)
- Christianity, Chalcedonian
- Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines)
- Bulgarians (South Slavs)
- Varangians
- Pechenegs, or Patzinaks
- Rus' people
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Macedonian dynasty
- Kievan Rus', or Kiev, Great Principality of
- Bulgarian Empire (First)
- Bulgarian Empire (First)
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Years: 972 - 972
Locations
People
Groups
- Polytheism (“paganism”)
- Christianity, Chalcedonian
- Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines)
- Bulgarians (South Slavs)
- Varangians
- Pechenegs, or Patzinaks
- Rus' people
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Macedonian dynasty
- Kievan Rus', or Kiev, Great Principality of
- Bulgarian Empire (First)
- Bulgarian Empire (First)
Topics
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions