kievan rus

The decision of St. Vladimir, the Grand Prince of Kiev, to convert both himself and his people to Orthodox Christianity in 988 is arguably the most important event in the history of Russia and one of the most important in the...


The Kievan Rus emerged in the


Principalities of Kievan Rus.


Map of Kievan Rus in the 11th


Kievan Rus


Kievan Rus in 11th century.


Birth of Kievan Rus

Kyrylivs'kyi monastyr) is a medieval monastery in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. The monastery contains the famous St. Cyril's Church, an important specimen of Kievan Rus' architecture of the 12th century, and combining elements of the 17th...
St Cyril S Monastery Exterior

No doubt in part to avoid the expected, senseless objections of the Roman Curia, in 1908 St. Pope Pius X conferred in private audience to Metropolitan Andrij Sheptytskij a mandate to care for all Catholics of the Kievan-Rus' Church (often...
kievan rus