(2) Kievan Rus: Military History and Notable Events

860 - Siege of Constantinople (All Facts)

• Battle in which the Rus (Russians) defeated the Byzantine Empire (the Byzantines), besieging and plundering the namesake city

• The Rus (Russians) had a force of 200 ships

907 - Siege of Constantinople (All Facts)

• Battle in which Oleg and the Rus were besieging the namesake city and plundering it until Emperor Leo VI of the Byzantine Empire had bought him off to cease his siege with the payment of tribute and the offer of a trade treaty

911 - Rus-Byzantine Treaty (All Facts)

• Peace treaty signed between Oleg and the Kievan Rus and Leo VI and the Byzantine Empire

• Peace treaty which Leo VI and the Byzantine Empire were forced to sign due to the decline in power of their ally, the Khazar Khaganate

• Treaty which marked a change in Byzantine foreign policy for the first time in 200 years

941 - 945 - Rus-Byzantine War (All Facts)

• Series of conflicts in which Igor and the Kievan Rus were defeated by Theophanes and the Byzantine Empire

• Series of conflicts which saw Igor in a plundering campaign of the Byzantine Empire in which he crossed the Black Sea towards the Bosporus Sea and went on to butcher and burn his way through Bithynia until he reached the gates of Constantinople

941 - Siege of Constantinople (All Facts)

• Battle in which Igor and the Kievan Rus were defeated by Theophanes and the Byzantine Empire, with the help of “Greek Fire”

• Battle in which Igor and the Kievan Rus fleet was all but annihilated after their abortive attempted attack on the Byzantine Empire’s capital during the Rus-Byzantine War

945 - Rus-Byzantine Treaty (All Facts)

• Peace treaty that ended the Rus-Byzantine War of 941 signed between Igor of the Kievan Rus and Constantine VII of the Byzantine Empire