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Kurultai held by Ogotai.—Sarai, the Mongol capital.—Patriarchal
system of Russia.—Rurik, 862.—Death of Rurik, 879.—Oleg,
successor of Rurik.—Askold and Dir.—Oleg takes Kief.—Expedition
against Constantinople.—First Russian treaty.—Death of Oleg,
912.—Reign of Igor.—Attacks on the Byzantine Empire, 941,
944.—Murder of Igor, 945.—Olga avenges the murder of her
husband.—Reign of Olga.—Succession of Sviatoslav, 957.—Olga
receives Christianity.—The Kazars.—Sviatoslav controls
Bulgaria.—Kief attacked by Petchenegs.—Death of
Olga.—Sviatoslav divides his inheritance.—Second war with
Bulgaria.—Murder of Sviatoslav, 972.—Dispute between the sons
of Sviatoslav.—Yaropolk becomes master of Russia.—Vladimir
takes Polotsk.—Blud betrays Yaropolk.—Vladimir becomes Prince
of Kief.—Religion of Russia.—Marriage of Vladimir with Anna,
sister of the Greek Emperor.—Death of Vladimir,
1015.—Vladimir’s twelve sons.—Sviatopolk seizes power.—Murder
of Boris and Glaib.—Defeat of Sviatopolk.—Sviatopolk seeks
assistance in Poland.—Sviatopolk defeated a second
time.—Mystislav appears before Kief.—Mystislav takes
Novgorod.—Battle of Listven.—Yaroslav enters Kief.—Yaroslav
becomes Grand Prince, 1016.—Death of Mystislav, 1035.—Yaroslav
frames a code of laws.—Arranges the succession.—Death of
Yaroslav the Lawgiver, 1054.—Russia divided between the sons of
Yaroslav.—Izyaslav Prince of Kief.—Vseslav the Wizard.—Vseslav
imprisoned by Izyaslav.—Polovtsi cross the boundary of
Pereyaslavl, 1055.—Peace made by the Polovtsi.—Polovtsi defeat
the Russian princes.—Kief dissatisfied with Izyaslav.—Kief
reënstates Izyaslav.—Izyaslav driven from Kief a second
time.—Sviatoslav becomes Grand Prince.—Izyaslav’s son visits
Rome.—Polish king asks Pope Gregory to assist
Izyaslav.—Monomach and Glaib.—Polovtsi warriors employed for
the first time.—Death of Sviatoslav, 1076.—Death of
Glaib.—Polovtsi led in by Oleg and Boris.—Izyaslav, Yaropolk
and Monomach march against Oleg.—Death of Boris.—Death of
Izyaslav.—Vsevolod becomes Grand Prince, 1078.—Volodar and
Vassilko.—Chernigoff given to Monomach.—Polovtsi army sent
against Vsevolod.—Death of Roman, 1079.—Trouble in
Volynia.—Traffic with Tsargrad.—Flight of Yaropolk.—Surrender
of Lutsk.—David, son of Igor, rules Volynia.—Galitch seized
from the King of Poland.—Death of Yaropolk, 1086 1