The trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks was a medieval trade route that connected Scandinavia, Kievan Rus' and the Eastern Roman Empire. The route allowed merchants along its length to estab
A coloured copy of runestone G 280 which talks of death in the Dnieper Rapids.
The Caspian expeditions of the Rus' were military raids undertaken by the Rus' between the late 9th century and c. 1041 on the Caspian Sea shores, of what are nowadays Iran, Dagestan, and Azerbaijan.
1915 interpretation of Rus' Varangians and their longships in Gardariki, by Nicholas Roerich
The site of the Khazar fortress at Sarkel, sacked by Sviatoslav c. 965. Aerial photo from excavations conducted by Mikhail Artamonov in the 1930s.
The Gripsholm Runestone commemorates Scandinavians who died in the expedition of Ingvar the Far-Travelled.