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Though the days of an aggressive Viking Rus’ were nearing their end, he would lead the old guard on a final hurrah: a non-stop series of violent campaigns against his neighbors, destroying an empire, subjugating tribes and nations, and nearly bringing down the remnants of Rome. His descendants would bow before the cross and be ushered in His baptismal waters: Sviatoslav was the final pagan, a staunch believer in Perun and Volos, and certainly lived up to their heathen creed.

Sources:
On the Date of the Khazars' Conversion to Judaism and the Chronology of the Kings of the Rus Oleg and Igor - Constantin Zuckerman
The emergence of Rus, 750-1200 - Franklin, Simon
The Primary Chronicle - Anonymous, transl. By Samuel Hazzard Cross & Olgerd P. Sherbowitz-Wetzor
The Varangians - Sverrir Jakobsson
Viking Rus - Wladyslaw Duczko
Was There a Riurikid Dynasty in Early Rus’? - Donald Ostrowski

Sources:
De Administrando Imperio - Constantine Porphyrogenitus
Dnipro-Buh Estuary Coast (964-972) - Volodymyr Kuzovkov
Grand Princess Olga of Rus’ Shows the Bird: Her ‘Christian Falcon’ Emblem - Roman K. Kovalev
Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness - Lunde, Stone
The Emergence of Rus, 750-1200 - Franklin, Shepard
The Jews of Khazaria, 2nd ed. - Kevin Alan Brook
The Primary Chronicle - Anonymous, transl. by Cross & Sherbowitz-Wetzor

Music credits:
Official Heavy Heart - Kevin MacLeod Evening
Fall Piano - Kevin MacLeod
Lone Harvest - Kevin MacLeod
Evening Fall Harp - Kevin MacLeod
Gregorian Chant - Kevin MacLeod

Footage credits:
Small frost river by I am Sorin
Drone Footage of a Frozen River by Mikhail Nilov

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:44 Origins
7:25 His reign begins
13:45 Crushing Khazaria
21:43 First Balkan campaign
24:38 Second Balkan campaign
32:16 Fall of a Knyaz

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