Early Rus Conquests: Viking Princes in Eastern Rome
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The Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the early history of Russia continues with a video on the reign of Oleg, Igor, Olga and Sviatoslav, as the Rurikids consolidate the Kievan Rus, attack the Khazars and the Byzantines. This video covers the struggle with the Drevlians and the religious rites of the Kievan Rus and its Variag masters. And, obviously, another siege of Constantinople.
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This is a great video keep up the great history teachings!
Can I get an update on that condottieri video? That'd be pretty poggers ngl
History of Rus is not the Russian history. It's Ukrainian history. Russian doesn't come from the so-called "Eastern Slavic" language. So-called "Eastern Slavic" languages are Ruthenian, Ukrainian and Belarusian. Russian came from Bulgarian (even linguistically Russian is called to be closer to Bulgarian) through church to the Finno-Ugric tribes. Борис Успенский considers Russian to be a deviation of Bulgarian. Even if Finno-Ugric tribes lived on Rus's lands, these lands were colonies in fact and not always. Finno-Ugric people didn't like foreigners too much. And there were battles between Ruthenian and Finno-Ugric people. I'm surprised that in Russia, still, there are descendants of Finno-Ugric and Turkic people that remember who they are, but people call them Slavs for no reason. Look at the citizens of other regions outside Moscow (if you think Moscow is a reference for the whole Russia) for a moment. As for the Finno-Ugric origin, you can read the following work: "Меряне и их быт по курганным раскопкам" by Алексей Сергеевич Уваров (he is an archaeologist of the Russian Empire).
I will try and you make ladt eprsode of thirty years war and mke ottoman war
Capital of Drevlians is Iskorosten not Turov.
Also history of Rus is part of history of Ukraine and Belorus and then the lesser part of some russian modern land
It’s crazy how the graphics in K&G’s videos keep getting better and better. Real great stuff.
Glad you like them!
@@KingsandGenerals Your artists did a great job indeed ^_^
right?!? the characters in some scenes even have breathing animation!
@@kraanz Are you saying the map briefly shown at 1:55 triggers people?
Great point AND a great choice of logo, good Sir 👍🍻
Princess Olga out here making Game of Thrones look like a kid's show.
Exactly!
@@universalflamethrower6342 even George rr Martin has stated that he uses historical events but won’t go the full extent
Ladgertha?
@@karenda Helga in Scandinavian...
I wonder if Olga was also of nordic blood or a slavic woman that Igor married.
For those who are like me and wanted to know what they did to Igor: "They had bent down two birch trees to the prince's feet and tied them to his legs; then they let the trees straighten again, thus tearing the prince's body apart."
Maybe he was killed by Sinis the Pityocamptes
Similar execution scene is shown over Ivar's guard in series "Vikings".
turks had a similar way of executing, tying each limb to a horse and then whipping the horses to run, tearing the limbs from the victim.
@@Shadow.24772 More pieces => more fun, right?
@@sholahverassa8582 pretty fun when it doesnt happen to your people, huh...no, wait...event then its fun LUL
3D graphics of this episode are amazing. Shout out to whoever have made them.
Lol
Well done!
I'm pretty sure he means the stuff that isn't from total war games. Credits say Michael Merc does the 3d animation, also helps with art and editing.
Eastern Rome: "Whew, we finally got the Umayyads off our backs, now we can stop having to defend Constantinople from sieges."
[The Kievan Ruse has entered the chat]
@@loecorristo555 poland agreed
Moscow= Third Rome
@@robroux6074 lol no
@@aokiaoki4238 if he refers to the old Russian family he has some merit after all most of the orthodox head priests fled to Moscow and the Russian Royal family was related to the Roman emperors, however if that makes them Worthy of being called Rome then the Islamic ottoman's who controled not only Constantinople and had blood relation to the old Roman Emperors via the marriages. Would have a much stronger claim not only that but unlike the Tsar's they would continue to use byzantine court traditions along with their own such as the concept of born in the purple
@@rickbergolla4055 because the Romans cared about blood relationships
You could’ve mentioned Sviatoslav’s famous phrase “I’m coming for you” (Idu na vy/vas) - a message he would send to his enemies before going to war, so that he could defeat them in one decisive battle instead of chasing scattered forces. It’s in the Primary Chronicle right after 14:05
I remember learning about that in school and always thought it was the coolest thing.
Now it's a motto of Special Forces of Ukraine
That's terrifying
@Nadelwald Königsberg Lol funny equivocation. Maybe pRussian prince huh?
All of them were ruthenians as Ukraine is the only successor of the ruthenia.
Russia is successor of Moscovia, check history.
@Nadelwald Königsberg in fact
The Slavs and Scandinavian are probably my favorite culture groups when it comes to history. You can never learn enough in my opinion.
@Somali Kid exactly! Glad you agree
True, even back in school in Sweden we never read much about Goths, Vandals, Langobeards or Vikings. The teachers thought we would be way to inspired.
@@Tjecktjeck Completely Agree ... Harald Hadrada film would be Awesome ... But please NO PC BS ... Like "Black Vikings" etc....
@@Tjecktjeck Both are PC LEFTIST Fantasies ... I only want FACTUAL HISTORY depicted in Viking movies
@@brodmontgomery 13th worrior
Drevlians: *Kill Oleg*
Olga: So you have chosen death.
Oleg? Olga was wife of prince Igor
Her Norse name was Helga.
You meant Ihor (Igor, Ingvar). And i'm from Korosten' (former Iskorosten'), where this varangian bastard were killed... I remember those days... %)
Igor
@@user-gj1np9rp4d Exactly, as Oleg's Norse name was Helg (or Helgi).
The emperor who defeated Svyatoslav, John Tzimiskes, probably deserves an entire episode to himself. Him and Basil II after him were the apogee of Byzantine might.
Agree!
I would argue the Basil 2 was the best Eastern Roman Emperor to ever live
@@lordkenten4136 If he had bothered to have kids, i'd agree.
Jack Lang While definitely a big issue I don’t think it ties away from his greatness. Even though he lacked children the empire continued to do well till manzikert. Even if cracks began to show in the empires foundations.
@@jacklang3314 He had no time, was busy slaying Bolgars.
Man, I'm so early that the Mongols haven't even arrived yet.
Being on time is important... unless you're the Mongols.
@@jesseberg3271 That's not true. The Mongols were known for punctuality. Temujin even was even berated by Jamukha for being 1-3 days late.
@@grimgoreironhide9985 I am making a reference to an older history TH-cam channel. Crash Course World History had a reoccurring joke where they would make a general statement and then qualify it with, "Unless you're the Mongols."
@@jesseberg3271 well I guess I am r/whoosh
Hungarians (magyars) were the actual nomadic raiders of this period
Lesson: Do not give the family of the enemy that you just slain an opportunity to strike back.
Better yet, as one Niccolò Machiavelli put: “But above all he must refrain from seizing the property of others, because a man is quicker to forget the death of his father than the loss of his patrimony.”
In this case, Olga knew that by marrying the Drevlyan Prince, he would kill her sons and have his lineage take over Kiev, it was a terrible deal from her standpoint, so she couldn't stand passive. They got greedy and got humbled. Perhaps had they just demanded peace things wouldn't happened like this. Or maybe Olga would have her revenge regardless, political advises aren't a cake recipe and there are a lot of variables to consider =P
but that custom when the Chinese emperor executed relatives of an enemy in nine "generations" seems a bit overkill.
@@maggan82 to the Power of "9"
I read somewhere that 1 Emperor said something like "why not make it an even '10' "
@@edmai6451 It was Fang Xiaoru, he wasn't an emperor, he was an official, and he was egging on the emperor to make the nine familial exterminations ten. In the end, along with him and his nine relations, his students and peers were also executed, a grand kill count of 873.
@@edmai6451 yes saw that one on a TV-documentary. That makes a lot of people.
Igor had his legs and arms binded to two bent trees on both sides and then was torn apart by those trees when they straightened.
So basically he had a split personality.
two bent birches to be exact
Not a bad way to go, really.
@@justinwbohner I don't know where you live by in my neck of the woods that counts as a bad way to go.
I don't know why HBO or Netflix haven't jumped on this great story.
Miklagard is a pretty epic name for a city tbh.
Särkland (nightshirt country) for arabia is kinda fun. Greenland was fake news and Wineland for america suggests they went a lot south of Newfoundland to find some grapes.
@@maggan82 imagine how worse they were living in scandinavia and ice/greenland to call newfoundland vinland hahah.
The climate was warmer back then, grapes grew even up in Norway, so they knew what grapes looked like. But I think the name Vinland is a clear hint they continued further down the coast, a lot further. Why would they not?
@@maggan82 ye seems reasonable
Miklagard is in norse: the city of Michail... the first emperor who made agreements with them...
While History channel is making propaganda movie series with its Vikings, this channel embraces real history!
Everyone: "Women are gentle..."
Olga: "Hold my pigeons"
I bet Olga was sexy as hell to
😜
@@kalebloshbough1551brah, *too
She used pigeons, because she knew they are the embodiment of Saint Spirit, and she wanted to become Christian.
Viking Princes in Eastern Rome - Kings & Generals once again made us realize the Real history could be extremely intriguing :)
@@olumluhayatbugunvarsinyari1326 your point?
Damn history of Rus is too Barbaric even for Barbarians.
I would like to point out some mistakes.First, the bulgarians were already bulgarians,not their ancestors the bulgars ,as it is claimed that they have assimilated with the slavs.Moreover,Bulgaria in 969 was a christian country for more than a hundred years,so the title khan was irrelevant.Instead the title of tzar should be used.
bulgars lul
they with house like a Islamic mosque?
bulgars defeated from tatars (turk peoples) and on 6-7xx take islam
Volga Bulgaria (Идел Болгар)
7th century-1240sReligion Tengrism, later Islam (after Almish Iltäbär)
Also, the churches and buildings illustrated should be wooden, the first stone building was constructed in 1037
@@mr.axolotl7727 If you are talking about Kievan Rus ,then you are probaly right.
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You forgot Historia civilis.
Invictus is swell too
check out suibnhe as well if you like simple history
Pedro Dupree the armchair historian is also gold
To Everyone that commented. I will be sure to check out all the recommendations. Appreciate it!👌
"Khan Boris II"? What? Who wrote this? The First Bulgarian Empire became Christian in 864. The title of Boris II is Tsar (Emperor), not "khan".
Forgot to mention it was tsar Peter st the time not Boris II
@Ron Lewenberg it doesn't matter the title Khan stopped being used since the 9th century when Boris I later his Christian name would be Michael became knyaz after his rule his son Simeon I was declared tsar by the patriarch of Constantinople (tho Since the patriarch was bellow the Byzantine emperor itself it was not recognized until his son Peter the first made peace treaty with Byzantium)
@@derinden15 by the time the rus invaded Bulgaria the tsardom was ruled by his grand son lmao
derin den According Wikipedia or any other academic you ask you will get at least five different versions from where the name Boris came. It really could be a tradition slavic name or a Iranian for all you, me or anybody knows. That being said trying to act smart here is pointless.
Bulgarians are tatats so simple
Sviatoslav is a Chad of his Time
Do we dare suggest that he deserves his own Unbiased history?
@@Alsemenor reserved for ROMAN BVLLS
WithAStick AngryWhiteMan so, ASIAN master race? :)
@@kraanz More precisely: "Holy Glory". "Slava" means "Glory".
Legend claims, when leaving Constantinople, Oleg nailed his shield to the city's main gate as a symbol of conquest.
Thanks K&G, it's a beautiful work from both visual and historical part on a very interesting, but sadly mostly neglected, history and people.
Also, it's already a Total War level of art & animations, keep up the great work!
So when an army is defeated and they have to leave the area they decide to nail their equipment to the gate? Just seems more humiliating if anything
@@Spartan-1821 They weren't defeated, they got loot and tribute.
@@Spartan-1821 Nah, rewatch the video, they *nailed* that raid.
Teo Danko The comment implies ‘conquest’ which means to own the lands which they invaded, but that didn’t happen
@@Spartan-1821Well, either I have missed the defeat part in the video, or you should watch it first ;) To me making the capital city of an empire to surrender by force without terms, and basically get whatever you want as a tribute is a conquest. Plus, I am pretty sure knyaz Oleg had a few spare shields ;)
I think you should have noticed that the term "Kievan Rus" was invented in 19th century by Russian historians for more convenient periods classification. Just like British historians invented term Byzantine. And Russians of that period had never called their country like that.
correct, it was just RUS ! with first big trade capital Ladoga , later Novgorod and Kiev.
@@bartnuck3432 The fact is that there could be more than one of these Rus (in the plural)) In fact, every Russian principality (and there were definitely more than one of them) was Rus)
Princess Olga would make hell of a protagonist in a Tarantino movie..
"They murdered her man, Now she murders their hopes."
Plot twist, she learns that it was Bill Gates's Vaccination that killed her beloved Husband. Oh boy, she's he'll bent on revenge, and time is running short. With only a week before a time portal closes, will Princess Olga avenge his mysterious death.
One scene would be of her barefoot walking over dead soldiers while some 60s beach songy were running.
Kill Bill much?
If anyone's curious Igor was killed by bending 2 birch trees over tied one leg to each one and let them straighten. Obviously ripping him in two. The Romans did this too, usually with young pine forests.
Beau Daniel sounds like a brutal and catoony way to get killed
V5 In yea similar to horses pulling the body..obviously they paid dearly for this execution
@@v5in88 What would you do if the king came to you for a tribute, and then the same day he came back and demanded the tribute again? Igor was the most famous loser in the history of Rus
If i am not mistaken, Alexander killed the governor of Bactria that way too.For betraying and killing his king Darius.
This is Greek mythology of Sinis the Pityocamptes
Damn, this Olga was a mix of Tyrion Lannister cunning and Ramsay Snow ruthlessness
Life writes better scripts than people. Many people here compare it to "Game of Thrones". The era of feudal fragmentation in Russia was much more dynamic than in the film.
@@JiGCop да не, книги хорошие. Только потому что невозможно сымитировать жизнь во всех ее проявлениях, нужно перестать пытаться что ли?
@@СиняяЗвезда-ж8б Я не об этом, я о том, что если заглянуть в учебник по истории (или посмотреть ролик), то бывает и поинтересней.
@@JiGCop с этим согласна, но Песнь Льда и Пламени все равно люблю
For the night is dark and full of terrors)
..."and, obviously, another siege of Constantinople..." ahahhaha :)))
Imagine having a video without a siege of Constantinople. Cringe :-)
@@KingsandGenerals , actually it would be amazing to make a video about all the sieges of constantinople in short, both by roman (civil wars) and foreign armies.
@@georgiok.6407 id love to see that too
@@rpavangchhia8953 Thank Dario Conti for that, he said: onother siege of Byzantium and instantly this came to my mind.
@@georgiok.6407 According to wikipedia, after constantine the great, constantinople was sieged 24 times
Is there a possibility that you could make a video on the pechenegs?
We will!
that would be great
@@KingsandGenerals Where is the video matee??
Kyivan Rus...) Kyiv is not Kiev...
You are literally saying the same word but in Slavic
Kings and Generals is claiming, according to the sponsorship, that the creators learned Russian in order to read primary sources,
probably written in medieval Cyrillic script.
🤣
The primary chronicle's medieval Cyrillic is too different to any of the three modern East Slavic languages for that to be of any use.
My grandma gave me an ancient Russian pendant of archangel. I can read Russian but this is old Russian no one i know can decipher. Russian wouldn't be a primary source, it's too new
Or it was to read Russian sources on the time period
@@chaosXP3RT yeah that's what I was thinking. He prob meant reading Russian sources not that the actual sources were written in modern Russian
Great video! Many thanks and warm greetings from Russia!
If you are Russian then you know that the Vikings were not evil barbarians as so many videos and printed lies claim. They were excellent traders and hunters and gatherers and craftsmen. They were never pagan and just like the Indians they honored God as the creator of nature and all living things. Thor is the name they used for God in His display of mighty thunder etc. The Vikings later knew about Jesus and the Norway Vikings had the Hebrew Bible translated to Viking language while trading in the Middle East. The Sweden and Finland Vikings went East and befriended the Greeks and had the Greek Septuagint Bible translated into their Viking language and formed the Greek Orthodox Churches. The Viking Bibles are accurate and are older than the first Catholic Bible. The Vikings fought and overthrew ancient Pagan Rome and also fought the Catholics for over 1000 years. The remains of Viking bones are in the tunnels with crypts that are underneath the Jewish Orthodox Torah Old Testament Churches that were built on top of their remains long ago in Kyiv Ukraine. Kyiv is really Kiev Rus as in Russia and is the true Capital of Russia and the Vikings contributed the region to Russia. My research was some of the information about the Vikings at the time as well as information in the history of the U.K. and the Spanish Conquistadors and was accurate. A Spaniard Hispanic cop temporarily detained me and in the state of Texas and stole my research. Texas is becoming very Communist and controlling with people afraid to speak and there is a large Spaniard Hispanic population that gets their way. Hospitals and Clinics and Pharmacies are everywhere in America with millions of sick or dying people and millions who already have died. The Spaniard Hispanic and the French and the Italian and Italian Portuguese and some of the British are not under attack either chemically or biologically or by violent physical assaults and so they are doing quite well regardless of any lies that may say otherwise. Also they do not lose their homes or jobs and wind up in tent cities. I suspect the Spaniard Hispanics will eventually conquer and rule all others in America as many more if them enter the country each day.
Tywin Lannister: The red wedding is the pinnacle of cunning and political backstabbing.
Olga: You are like little baby, watch this.
When will you cover Volga Bulgars?
Really looking forward to it!
Good video overall but some corrections are needed. The use of the word "capitulate" for the Byzantines paying off the Rus is unfortunate at best. The Eastern Romans did that all the time. Instead of engaging in a costly war simply pay off the barbarians to leave and usually the sum that the tribes deemed as hefty wasn't seen as such by the Romans themselves. Also, it wasn't emperor Tzimiskes that paid Sviatoslav to invade Bulgaria, it was emperor Nicephorus Phocas, who was in the meantime murdered by his nephew Tzimiskes, (who had an affair with the Empress-we really need an HBO series on these events-) who then became the next emperor as Sviatoslav's invasion raged in. Plus the map showing the extent of Bulgaria deep in to southern Greece is not accurate. Bulgarian borders didn't extend that far south into Thessaly and neither did they include the Ionian islands.
The map is wrong several times in the video and the conflict between the Rus and Romei in Bulgaria also isn’t portrayed as accurately as it should, not to mention the whole mesh up of the terminology.
After 927 AD, Bulgarian ruler is not Khan but Tsar recognised by the emperor of Eastern Roman Empire. I'm saying that, because in the video you refer to Bulgarian ruler from 971-972 as Khan, but hi is Tsar Boris II.
at the time bulgaria was Rulled by Tsar Peter I tho
The term "Kievan Rus" was coined by historians in the mid-19th century. Ethnic self-designation of contemporaries (10-11 centuries) - Rus (Русь), Rusland (Руськая земля), Rusia (Росия), with one "S". Vikings (normanni, varangians) were used to guard trade routes and caravans. Sometimes they were hired to "solve" local tribal conflicts.
@@007ShaolinMonk Russia just stole the brand in the process of power consolidation in orthodox church. Their actual name would be Moscovia.
@@007ShaolinMonk No. You need to falsify history for centuries and then one day call yourself Russia. The Moscovites were just too shy to sneak up on Prussia, no one would believe.
@@007ShaolinMonk They cant (so far) because Germany exists.
And Köningsberg passed to the Soviet Union only in 1945, after the war.
If they could, in the Second World War, fully occupy Germany and get to their historical archives, then, yes, they would have completely cleaned up and rewritten the history as they did with Rus.
But they dont have enough Germany, they long ago declare that Moscow is the Third Rome and claim to the territory of the former Roman Empire
What ‘Vikings’ should have been
They are almost up to this point. Oleg, Rurik and Igor are all in the latest season. I would love to see Olga's exploits though
Now I want a series on Sviatoslav.
@@YuuSHiiiN Because he is a child. Hitler at 10 was probably a cute kid lol.
@@fatalshore5068 yeah except the part where rus invade scandinavia
@@fatalshore5068 Not really, in the show the Rus invade Norway which they never did. Like why would they even skip Sweden and Denmark that are closer and go straight to Norway.
Eastern European history is really interesting, and much less known about. More please!
Olga is one crazy *****! That is exactly why I like reading and hearing of her so much. She also make us realise, that reality is often worst than fiction.
And later make as sent ,that show what chirch is actualy!
Kind of weird to make somebody like that a saint.
Sadly, the tales are probably made up. They're all from one book written hundreds of years after the fact to prop up the lords when it wad written by boasting of how great their ansesters were. Tales that either appear nowhere else in history or are stright up copied from older works about other people! History and myth truly were synonyms back then.
malleableconcrete Orthodox Church is a highly politicized institution, in truly Byzantine tradition. Nicolai II, who slaughtered, hanged and starved millions of Russians through his incompetence, egoism, traditionalism, stupidity and disregard to life of commoners, is also revered now as a Saint.
As always, отлично!
Maybe it doesn't matter to you but there is some remarks / additions)
1. Rostov, Beloozero, and Murom wasnt Rus town neither even slavic, they just was under control and pay tribute for some time, had other languages and customs . 2. Novgorod at Ilmen lake according to archeology did not exist before middle X cen even as a village. Scandinavian sources, in particular, sagas, to the XIII cent. dont mention Novgorod. 3. Ibn Fadlan confused the Volga Bulgars with the Slavs, so he could confuse the Ruthenian with the Norman. Kyiv chronicle calls the custom of burning atrocities. Ibn Fadlan saw it at Volga-Bulgaria which didnt have a direct trade connection with Kiev but had with the Normans. 4. Rus alredy was at Konstantinopol 852, 860 long before Oleg appeared in Kyiv. 5. "Druzhina" is Kyiv region word so Normans would not call themselves so. It is obvious that they joined the already existing formations.Prince Svyatoslav - had local Slavic name like all his descendants.
In general, the Norman theory of the formation of Rus hasnt dominated for a long time
@@fedorevdokimenko3978Аccording to archeology and anthropology show that these cities never became Slavic. For political reasons, the local population began to be considered Slavs not so long ago. Vyatichi - the wild Slavic tribe (chronicle) did'nt own any of the cities I listed and had no cities at all, had distinctive language, lived next to the Finno-Ugric peoples and had similar traditions
@@fedorevdokimenko3978 from the bottom of my heart) Antropology: T. Alekseyeva - Ethnogenesis of the Eastern Slavs according to anthropology 1973; Antropology and archeology: A. Uvarov - Meryans and their life in the mound excavations, 1872; A. Gatcuk - "Study of the mounds of the Moscow province in 1863 and 1864"; A. Bogdanov - "Materials for the anthropology of the mound period in the Moscow province" (1867), "Merians in anthropological terms", 1879. The Kyiv chronicle, listing the tribes and cities, does not call anything Vyatichi, there is also an indication of their wild customs.
I love early russian history.
More on the way!
russia didnt exist then
@@007ShaolinMonk let me guess, but the Ukraine did exist, didn't it? :)
@@Nekerfree yes it was all imaginary of course -_-
Neker's Shitposts
...yet the Kievan Rus' is still a part of Russian history. And Belarusian, and Ukrainian.
Good episode, despite John Tzimiskes didn't agreed the invasion of the Bulgars with Svijatoslav, the plan was devised by his predecessor Nikephoros Phocas
Amazing video as always! But after the death of Simeon I, his son Petar I is officially recognized as "Tsar of Bulgarians and Greeks" by the Eastern Roman Emperor Roman I. And so Petar's descendants - Roman and Boris II are to be called by the title "Tsar" as well. One of them would die in captivity and the other would be killed by a Bulgarian boarder soldier during the reign of the Comitopuli dinasty, more specifically - Samuel of Bulgaria.
Keep up!
Wasn't it the "Tsar of Bulgarians and Romans", though?
Yeah Peter was Recognized as Basileus of the Bulgars by Romanos Lekapenos. Though the Title was Stripped alongside the regalia when his son Roman got paraded through Constantinople by John Tzimiskes.
But Very True for 50 Years Bulgaria was legally Recognized as a Fellow Imperial realm alongside the Emperor of the Franks.
@@Vitalis94 Hey, just wanted to say i found out your channel and discovered the viking movie through it, the only good movie i have seen so far with byzantines in it ! Movie starts right where this episode ends as well.
@@CrazyPinkStalion69 oh, that's great to hear, I'm glad you liked it! Although to be honest, my editing skills could be better.
it was tsar of bulgarians and romans
When did Antonio Banderas and Ulfric battle the cavemen, though?
I was looking for this comment to appear 😂
Man Constantinople seriously can’t catch a break, always being attacked by a whole manner of people Rus, Normans, Latin crusaders, Ottomans, etc. It’d definitely suck living there.
Yeah Constantinople was an embarrassment of riches and the envy of many nations for 1300 years!
well, out of like a couple dozen sieges I think over the course of a millennium only twice did an enemy successfully breach its walls(and the last one was only due to massive artillery firepower). So I'd say overall a pretty safe place to reside during the Middle Ages. You would definitely prefer to be living inside its walls rather than anywhere outside when Attila showed up (and decided to turn back after seeing its fortifications)
I played these characters in CK2 when I did the Duchy of Kiev playthrough.
Drevlyans are the ancestors of Ukrainians
3:16 so romantic.
Key word "volunteer"
@@aokiaoki4238 Mhm...
'Volunteer' - Definition: "A person who freely offers to take part in an enterprise or undertake a task"
'Slave' - Definition: "A person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them."
I'm sure this *totally* 'voluntary' sacrifice was 100% *totally* 'voluntary' and not in any way shape or form ever compelled, nor ever partaken of as an attempt to escape forced servitude to a less palatable master than the one previously lost. But maybe I'm just an optimist...
Bulgarian rulers were not called Khans anymore since christianization more than a century ago from the time of Rus invasion. Boris II though should really be called tsar Boris II since he is a direct decendent of Simeon the Great who was recognized by the Byzantines as a Basileus (meaning emperor or tsar). Actually the first use of the word Tsar in history was in a gravestone text regarding Simeon the Great and his son Petar I. So your choice of titles was not correct.
Would like to add Oleg also used dugouts (monoxyla) as a mainly Slavic form of naval combat and ordered his warriors to wheel them in his attack outside of Constantinople
This was great but now I'm interested in the Roman generals who defeated the invading warlords.
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Vardas Skliros is the Name Greek name ,Greek surname ,And Another Greek from Minor Asia ,what we CallByzantines after 600 Ad where Of Greek origins when the Say we are Romans they mean we Are the Susecesors of Old Roman Legacy even if we are Of Hellenic Origins to make that clear to the Germanic Friend of Pope that they Are nothing to do with Ancient Legacy of Rome or Greece
Bardas Skleros, who defeated the Rus in Arcadiopolis would later rebel against Basil Ii
11:20 I remember seeing that tactic in the series Marco Polo, that Genghis Khan used it. Although I don’t know if he actually did it, it’s good to see someone with the cunning to perform it
That show was awesome!
Fun fact: I am not sure if KG uploaded this video around these days on purpose, but today (11th July) is the patron day of St.Olga (yes the one in the video) for the Eastern Orthodox Church
Nope. Unfortunately, it is very difficult for us to plan those things
@@KingsandGenerals I know, actually it is quite fortunate ;)
@@KingsandGenerals Also, irrevant question and topic to this though, have you ever made any video for the Iraq-Iran War during the 80's? That would be very interesting to see too.
I thought it was Nikephoros Phokus, not John Tzimiskes that invited Svytaslav to attack Bulgaria.
You are correct.
Definitely need an episode on the Finnic tribes of this era. There is a fascinating 2 part documentary about the contacts and historical significance the Baltic Finnic people played in the Viking travels into the Eastern Baltic and beyond. It is called "Itämerensuomalaiset" on Yle Areena. Unfortunately it is in Finnish with only Swedish subtitles, but if you know Finnish or Swedish, I highly recommend it.
Rurik and later all Russians highclass was geneticly Finnish. You can test it in dna database.
@@jakkeledin4645 Finnic =/= Finnish
Kins and Generals,
You got a disappointing mistakes there...
Bulgarian Empire during that time was ruled by a Tzar, named Petar.
After the 1st battle near Dorostorum, he went to monastery and bulgarian throne went to Boris II, but only then.
I would like to say that these videos are very interesting. Moreover, Keivian Rus and Slavic-turkic Volga Bulgars history is something I would love to hear about. I hope more video with come in the future.
Volga Bulgars - not slavic but ugro finic state
@@ДмитроРусин-м9н Я согласен.
volga bulgars were turkic. nothing to do slavs. maybe you got confused with modern day so called bulgarians, who speak a slavic language and who named their stare after the turkic Muslim volga bulgar state (although they hate Muslims lol)
@@ДмитроРусин-м9н just like Russia
@@zizouace4890 That was before islam existed and Volga Bulgaria became muslim centuries later, possibly even becoming turkified too.
"Hey yo, you know the lady that tossed our envoys to their deaths?"
"Yeah?"
"She's now asking us to send our best warriors & that she won't kill them"
"That makes sense. I mean, she wouldn't try to kill them too, right?"
Sviatoslav the brave. Never expected to see him on this channel.
You can see the remnants of Norse paganism in surviving Russian myths, Baba Yaga is incredibly similar to Angrboda the most fearsome witch of norse myth. The Eastern version of Perun/Perkunaz is much more like Thor than the version that was worshipped in Poland and West Slavic lands. Their mythologies were very similar to begin with and obviously syncretised rather quickly.
I strongly doubt Perun comes from Thor. I don't think the matter is so simple and one-sided.
Afterall, Swedes for example have more Male-Slavic DNA than the other way around suggesting maybe the surviving records are a bit biased.
@@overlord165 Personally I suspect they both have one common source in the Old Indo-European culture that the slavs and Norse descend from. But the similarities are massive! Perun, is a warrior god of thunder, lightning and storms, who wields an axe-hammer and whose main enemy is a water dragon god, (Veles). Thor is a warrior god of thunder lightning and storms, who wields a hammer and whose main enemy is a dragon water god, (Jourmungandr).
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Olga is Helga, Igor is Ingmar and so on and so forth...
Oleg Igorovich = Helge Ingmarson ;-) In Poland we dont use
patrimonic names, did it also come to Ruthenia after vikings ?
Eastern Romans: aka the Byzantine Greeks.
@blorghised No idiot. For us Greeks 1) anyone who had greek as a mother tongue and 2) had also greek anchestry was Greek. And Byzantines had both. The same goes for everyone else. Example: French as mother tongue + french anchestry = frenchman. Period.
@blorghised Actually he knows Very well what he's talking About around 600 ad the Slavs came to Balcan s and Conqer all the Roman Cities of Balcans ,only The big Cities of Greece remain unqonqer Thessaloniki Larissa ,Patra ,Dimitriada etc .the Hellenic Population of Greece mainland went to those Cities for Protection as to Costandinopole ,to the Island of Aegian sea many Flew to South Italy ,and Sicilly ,And to Minor Asia ,the Greek families of Anatollia nobles to the old Roman state ,defeat the Arabs after 200 years conflict and send Renforces to Greece to Drove out the Slavs that they where almost evewhere in the Countryside even they didn't controll any big cities the Byzantines manage to restablishe controbto all Hellenic Peninsula ,and drove out 200 .000 Slavs ,they also brink Greek Speaking Population to the Hellenic Peninsula from All over the Empire mostly from South Italy , Sicilly and M Asia you can easily find those info's In all respectable Sorces ,the reason they still call themselves Romans was because they don't Want to legalise ..the Germanic Latins friends of Pope as Successor s of Ancient Legacy of Rome ..or Greece even that use to repeats in the Documents we are Hellennes (
@@eliaspapanikolaou3563 No serious scholar supports this. You made it up.
@@georgethanos7700 i made up ?And Who is t he sholar who doesn't ,Another Albanian with Greek name perhaps ?..Even in Google can find those info's N any report about Medeiva L Greece ,and at Paparigopoulos history do you think all those mappers from all over around the world they make historical maps and they have those cities unqonqer from they Slavs they made it up fom themselves ?or try to be 100%correct ?also and now IAM asking you STRaIgIGT and clear is True or not that t Slavs dident t conqer any big Cities ?in Greece ?Is I am talking about Big Cities s.not Athens by the time was a small village of 1000 people ,Thessaloniki NEVER fall to the Slavs ,Lariisa Never falll to the Slavs ,Patra never Fall to the Slavs ,Dimitriada Medieval Volosnever fall to the Slavs ,Costandinopole and And MAsia never fall to the Slavs ,The Aegian Island never Fall to the Slavs dou you know how many Slavs drove out of the Penincula Theodosios the Second ?If you just go the Google to Byzantine Greece you will see about How may Greeks came to Greece from South Italy ,Silly and MAsia ..after the Reqonqest of Penincula from the Slavs don't Provoke me again with this style because if you are Greek and not Albanian Imakes me sad how ignorant you are ..you trust only American TV series about Byzantines that they make a serial about the siege of Costandinopole and they don't mention the surname of Costantine not even one time Paleologos purpuslly because is Greek ,and those kind ofsholars you trust ?I don't ,or is not true that the Greek FamiliesinMasia where there before the Slavic invasion to Balcans and theywher serving the old Roman state ..and they where those who reqonqer the Hellenic Peninsula from Slavs and drove them out.
Superb episode.
John I wasn’t just a great general: he exemplified flawless Byzantine “diplomacy” during his reign. And him beating the Rus and weakening the Bulgars by deceiving the former definitely help set the stage for his awesome successor. He’s undoubtedly one of the most competent emperors (along with his predecessor who he usurped, Nikephoros II).
Basil II (episode soon please) was lucky to have him as his co-emperor and predecessor.
Just wait for svyatoslav’s son and grandson...the Rus aren’t done fucking up constantinople
Ababych1 Wrong Son! Vladimir never raided Constantinople and instead converted to Orthodoxy while Helping the Byzantines. He even returned Cherson.
Tyler Ellis more than one way to fuck them without raids. His marriage to the sister of emperor cause serious issues for Basil II, who allowed “born in purple” to marry a barbarian. Also before returning cherson he has to first take it no? Essentially forcing the emperor to ask for help and marry her off
Ababych1 by “fucking up Constantinople”, you mean helping Basil II destroy Skleros and Phocas’ rebellions, converting to Orthodoxy, and by turning themselves into mercenaries in the service of the emperor thus forming the Varangian Guard?
Yep, they sure effed up Constantinople 😂
Sit down, son.
Kaba the Ugly Cat dumbass, it was done in exchange for marrying off the sister of emperor and bunch of other concessions! Basil became indebted to Rus and their Guards after this deal.
Pick up a book clown
Great video, I realized that on recent years Slavic history so rich and interesting than many people know, keep it up guys
Thank you!
Great video, I really enjoy this era/time period it is fascinating.
Have you made a prior video on the battle of Arcadiopolis? I would be quite interested. Sviatoslav is quite the legend, a warrior king produce by Norse, Slavic, and Turkic cultures. Truly one for the sagas!
Wow, your best work so far! Several highlights on the fusion of the norse and the slavs, but norse is really to generic, these people originated from Roslagen (the swedish archipelago) called themselves "ruser" (those who row). But the archipelago bent the knee to Svitjod (land of Svear, todays Sweden mainland). Olga (born as "Helga" in Pskov) naming her son Sviatoslav, sounds like an atempt to merge svear (Svit) and slavs (no I don´t really believe this)... As you describe the ruser soon adopted slavic customs, the same way danish vikings did in French Normandie. But it´s possible that Farulf (old norse for "travelling wolf") and the other ambassadors used slavic gods to swear upon the peaceagreement - it was a way to keep their backs free to their old norse gods?
That's interesting. They swore on the Slavic gods, but were like, "But we didn't swear on the Norse gods..." :D
As for Syatoslav, there is nothing Norse about the name, etymologically. The root Svyat/Svat/Svet means "holy" in all Slavic languages.
Sviato-slav. So Holy-glory?
Margareta Almqvist more like Holy Gloryfier
Or the one who glorifies holiness
The arts in these videos are amazing. The details that you put in are excellent. That shield wall scene was amazing. Everbody wearing a helmet and a spear or axe. That's why i can't watching series and movies that show warriors who didn't wear helmet, and only use swords and used leather everywhere. To bad that we only see viking history involde the UK.
@@fedorevdokimenko3978 You put some specific cases. I wrote the comment thinking about the most used times in films and series. In England a few centuries after the end of the western Roman empire. Including his wars against France. And some Roman periods.
I know that there are more examples than the ones you put up. But we can assume that helmets were difficult and expensive to make, as you go back in time. They were expensive and only a few people would be able to pay for them. They would be chiefs, army leaders and their personal guard.
That would be a way for them to stand out from the rest. What not properly represented. They would possibly adorn the helmets. With horsehair and / or feathers. They would use the best protection for the time. And it sure would be with metal. If it was something using leather, it would not be a thin layer on the torso and anti arm.
It seems that in movies and series, it doesn't matter the season, when a person was promoted. She no longer wore a helmet. You can search, there are scenes where a whole group of warriors are wearing helmets, except for the protagonists. Or worse, everyone wearing armor and a helmet and the protagonist wearing something leather on his arms and torso and without a helmet.
About the helmets worn by the "Vikings". The helmet with that half moon front, with a piece protecting the eyes and nose. It seems that it covers part of the peripheral vision. It is bad in sparse fights, not so much in the shield wall. I've seen reports that this is why this model didn't last long. And there are several types of helmets that do not obstruct your hearing, or just osbtruim little. Same thing with the vision. But they are small sacrifices for protection.
Let's admit that the actors' reasons for not wearing helmets are to show their faces. Stay using their image, regardless of historical facts, at most he starts the battle using some kind of helmet, to take him out in the middle of the battle.
I apologize if I am looking sulky or nervous. It's because these clichés make me very angry. I can't get excited about series anymore because of that.
Example that series on netflix about the fall of Constantinopolis by the Ottomans. When a character appeared in full armor, walking without a helmet and with 2 swords on his back. I had to pause to breathe. Even though he put on his helmet afterwards and went into battle. I only managed to finish this episode of the series.
History that takes place in England after Roman occupation. The technology for making knitwear and helmets was already well mirrored by the country. The regular exercises were small. But they wore full armor. The leaders hung their helms with silver and gold accents to show wealth and power. The winners looted enemy bodies in search of better equipment.
But now I'm digressing a lot.
I tried not to write huge and tiring texts. I had to use the google translator because my writing in English is not very good.
In TV-documentaries "vikings" often have helmets inspired from the earlier "vandal-period" 500-800 AD. They are more ornamented than the later viking helmets, but no horns in the brozeage-style. Anyway the vikings weapons and armour developed a lot from the humble beginnings to the Normand invasion in England 1066. The Bayeaux tapestry is probably the best depiction what "the late vikings" armour.
Igor Ruruk no skandinavian,it kievlian rus,norman propogandic good
Rule #1 don't kill Olga's husband.
I read that Ibn-Fadlan reading earlier in my semester. He was also fascinated and horrified by the treatment of the slave girl, as she was raped by something like a dozen men before being set on the boat. I seem to remember some other rituals which were pretty gnarly in his accounts too
I read his account as well and it’s pretty gruesome!
May as well not let it go to waste
This series is a breath of fresh air. Something new, interesting, and something that wasn't covered ten thousand times by other channels. I'm here, hoping that K&G will go in this direction. As much as I love Roman history, it was and still is covered by so many channels.
Rurik was cool and all, but Olga tho... "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"
Princess Olga sounds like a badass.
Semiramis 2.0, new and improved.
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Please please add the playlist link to which this video belong. It will be very helpful to know if we are missing any back story.
I love your content and wait for your next content like a worshiper 🙌🏻👍🏻, The only thing that bother me, is that I don't want to miss anything. So please listen to my and I believe many people will have the same request. That will very helpful. 😁✌🏻
Olga of Kiev really surprised me. The most I usually hear about her reign was her brutal putting down of the Drevlians. I rarely hear about her adept administrative skills and fundamental economic reforms.Thanks for the informative video. RESPECT!
Also she is a saint.
Что за бред? Какие ещё викинги? На Руси не было викингов. И племя русь было не скандинааским.
Amazing stuff!!! I was waiting for this moment :)))
Nice to watch this video living in Kyiv
Love the new graphics, maps and portraits! As usual, excellent content!
3:20 Alongside a slave girl who "volunteered" to be ritually sacrificed. hmmm....
Exactly. More like voluntold.
Great video, however, by the time time of Sviatoslav (infact a century earlier) the Bulgars and slavs had already united into one entity forming the Bulgarian identity. We did not use the title Khan at the time but emperor(tsar) a title officially recognized by the Eastern Roman empire itself.
for fucks sake: 15:37 In 969 Bulgaria was orthodox christian for more than a century and the title is not khan (khan is a pagan title) but Tzar (Tsar), recognised even before the rule of Boris II, into the reign of his father Peter I and even his grandfather Simeon I - The great.
and: Yes, we know there is also Volga Bulgaria, but calling it Danube Bulgaria is redundant. It is just - Bulgaria
And why do you call them "bulgars? The term bulgars ir relevant to the pre-christian times.
The history covered, art, narration and editing in this video were all superb! I was already fascinated with this channel and it's only been improving as time goes by!
it's a shame that it's not getting nearly as much attention as it deserves though... I really wish the best for this channel
Couldn't agree more, the quality of this channel is phenomenal
ANYONE notice how much of this particular history influenced the work of GEORGE RR MARTIN. I know the red wedding is said to be based on the black wedding in england or the war of the roses or some other particularly gruesome part of history but from begining to end. the history of early Rus sounds like a description of ASoIaF aka GoT.
During Olga's revenge I could hear The Rains of Castamere in my head.
First, the Black Dinner was Scottish Clan (Campbell) killing their hosts for political reasons not English, but yes it did inspire the ASOIAF. Second the stuff in ASOIAF although definitely sounds similar to some of stuff in history but that is the point. History often repeats itself and similar trends across cultures that haven’t met each other. The war of the Roses was the main inspiration for the story but their are lots of elements taken across the world to make ASOIAF as medievally authentic as possible. Stuff like Bravôs clearly being inspired by Venice, the Valyrian Freehold is a clearly based off the Roman republic. There is a huge amount taken from history in order to make the books feel real.
Thank you so much for this docu-series! I was born in Ukraine and unfortunately didn't learn much of the history due to moving to the states as a young child. I have a newfound love and interest in my family and ethnic history so your videos are really helpful and informative.
7:14 Was he allied with the Thalmor?
I edited the timestamp on the comment and lost the heart Kings and Generals gave me, why is TH-cam like this :'(
Thank you so much Kings and Generals for dedicating a whole series to my ancestors...
I hope they find more archeology and more written material besides the primary chronicle... 🤞🤞🤞🤞
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i have to admit i was pretty surperised when i saw that the byzantine actually won i'm used to them being defeated all the time
@@QualityPen exactely they were defated in the majors and the msote decisive battles
The Byzantine emperor did not fear conquest from the Vikings, whom they rather viewed as a big nuisance. The Byzantine army had big armies with an array of sophisticated weaponry.
However, it was easier and cheaper to pay them off instead of using big navies and cavalry armies and fight them at sea or hunting them on the steppes of Ukraine. Furthermore, the Byzantine Empire was busy fighting the far more powerful Muslim Caliphates in the east.
Great production quality, just sad to see you didn't research the topic enough. "Early history of Russia " 300 years before Moscow was even build?? Its a shared history of many nations and boiling it down to a single country is disingenuous at the very least.
Also I understand you needed to generalize all princes into "Viking Princes" to make the story more appealing, but vikings assimilated to the local culture very quickly, you mention yourself at 13:13 that "Sviatoslav resembled more his Slavic and Turkic subjects". This was already in 945! Rus existed from 882 until 1240! Which means that for over 80% of its existence the "Viking princes" were not "viking" at all. They didn't even follow their Scandinavian religion...
We, ancestors of the people you talk about, clearly deserve a clarification on those 2 topics!
That Idiot don't show even Polans on greenfield plain lands from river Odra to river Vistula - Pomeranian's lived on coast Polish mainland and by the way baptism of Kevian Rus were about 980 or 988 20 years after baptism of Poland in 966
Ancient Russian history seems more breathtaking than any fantasy lore...
Rus’ history, not russian. Russia as country, happened not before 18th century. Therefor, russia, has nothing to do with Rus or Kyivan Rus.
@@Uhn_Tiss Какой 18 век? Что за бред! Когда Новгород появился?
Blows the history channel straight out of the water... I can’t stop watching!!!
People who dislike this video are mystery to me. How high are their expectations that this peace of art does not satisfy?
come on, guys! Kyiv, not Kiev, because the name of it`s founder`s was Kyi but not Kie and vyatichians and krivichans were not of Slavic origin but assimilated finno ungrians, like merya, moksha, muroma and others. Only modern russian so called historicans suppose vyatichians and krivichans were slavs
I found our Ukrainian participant 👆👆👆👆
@@Desh282 @Fedor Evdokimenko I`ve found out 2 russian, lol. Desh, if you need sources - you can easelly find them out. I hope you know what Moksel was. Google it. Fedor, I know that russians think that only russians sources are historically correct. Karamzin, Soloviev or Tatishchev based their assumption on Nestor`s piece of work. But nobody has no clue why and when it was lost. We can accuire russian sources are mostly fake. And see it right now on Viktor Suvorov`s works or novadays russian state denial of Molotov-Ribbentrop secret protocols. So do not be so sure, guys
Костя Ворона Im originally from Oryol... I can show you my DNA test that shows me in Slavic... why do I need some pseudo science to tell me I’m Finnish/Hun/Uralic/Balt/Tatar
Russian all agree that Ukrainians are Slavs but why do Ukrainians think Russians aren’t? You guys like making stuff up to feel good about yourselves ?
Turks: every part of old world
There are some legitimate questions as whether Igor could really be the son of Rurik. Even if he was an enfant at the time of Rurik's death he should be in his sixties during the 40ies of the next century. Firstly, that was a very rare age for the time and place, and secondly almost all around his persona screams young age - young wife, the only enfant son, long expeditions more suitable for a young person. Some scholars point out he could be the son or even more likelier the grandson of Oleg, as there could be a missing ruler between Oleg's and Igor's reigns.