State
Kievan Rus'
Kiev and other centres · conventional period boundaries
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- 882–1132
A union of lands under princes of the Rurikid dynasty, with Kiev as a major political centre. ‘Old Rus'’ and ‘Kievan Rus'’ are terms used by historians; contemporaries called the land Rus'. Its legacy forms part of the history of several modern peoples.
- Beginning of the period
- 882 is the chronicle date of Oleg taking control of Kiev.
- End of the period
- 1132 is a conventional boundary following the death of Mstislav the Great; the division into independent lands was gradual.
- Illustration
- A page of the 15th-century Radziwill Chronicle with a miniature of Oleg's campaign against Constantinople: a later depiction of events from the early 10th century.
- Flag
- There was no single national flag in the modern sense.
