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War & Warriors · Grand Principality of Moscow
The Battle of Kulikovo (1380): Dmitry Donskoy, Mamai and the Myth of Liberation
The Battle of Kulikovo on 8 September 1380: who fought, how many, what the earliest sources say, and why the victory did not end the Tatar yoke.
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War & Warriors · Teutonic Order
The Battle on the Ice (1242): What Really Happened on Lake Peipus
The Battle on the Ice of 5 April 1242 in the sources: who fought, how many died, where it happened, and how the drowning knights entered the story.
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Religion & Belief · Kievan Rus'
Slavic Paganism in Rus': Perun, Veles and the Gods Before Christianity
What did the pagan Slavs of Rus' believe? Perun, Veles, Mokosh and the other gods, the few sources that name them, and which "Slavic gods" were invented later.
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War & Warriors · Rus'
The Rus' Attack on Constantinople (860): The Vikings' First Raid on Byzantium
In 860 a Rus' fleet raided the outskirts of Constantinople. What Patriarch Photios saw, who the attackers were, why they left and where the storm legend began.
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Sources & Evidence · Kievan Rus'
The Primary Chronicle: How We Know About Early Rus'
Who wrote the Primary Chronicle, when, which manuscripts survive, and how historians test its dates against Byzantine, Arabic and Frankish sources.