The Christianization of Kievan Rus' was a long and complicated process that took place in several stages. In 867, Patriarch Photius of Constantinople told other Christian patriarchs that the Rus' peop
The Baptism of Rus' (Klavdiy Lebedev c. 1900)
Baptism of the first Rus, illustrated in the 14th century Manasses Chronicle.
The baptism of St. Princess Olga in Constantinople, a miniature from the Radziwiłł Chronicle
The Ostromir Gospels, written in Church Slavonic, one of the first dated East Slavic books.
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The Rus', also known as Russes, were a people in early medieval Eastern Europe. The scholarly consensus holds that they were originally Norsemen, mainly originating from present-day Sweden, who settle
Christianization of Kievan Rus'
…a long and complicated process that took place in several stages. In 867, Patriarch Photius of Constantinople told other Christian patriarchs that the Rus' people were converting enthusiastically, but his efforts seem to have entailed no lasting consequences, since the Russian Primary Chronicle and other Slavonic…
The Kälvesten runestone from the 9th century.
Guests from Overseas, Nicholas Roerich (1899)
Ship burial of a Rus' chieftain as described by the Arab traveler Ahmad ibn Fadlan who visited north-eastern Europe in the 10th century. Henryk Siemiradzki (1883)
"Each woman wears on either breast a box of iron, silver, copper, or gold; the value of the box indicates the wealth of the husband."