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91: 25: 392:, where it had been used as a city gate. The extant cathedral gate is decorated with complicated cross symbols, specifically associated by art historians with Chersonesos. Curiously enough, excavations of Chersonesos yielded an inscription reporting that the city gate had to be replaced in 1059. Apart from the gate, the treasure contained gold vessels, the miraculous icon of the 346: 334: 431:
to conclude that hostilities were renewed in 1044 or 1045, when Vladimir advanced on Chersonesos and captured it, retaining the town until the Byzantines, involved in several other wars, agreed to conclude a favourable treaty with Rus' and give a princess in marriage to his younger brother. If so,
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Bryusova argues that later pious legends confused Vladimir of Novgorod with his more famous grandfather and canonized namesake, who most likely never waged wars against Byzantium. Some late medieval authors went as far as to ascribe this Crimean campaign to another celebrated Vladimir,
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Vyshata was allowed to return to Kiev at the conclusion of the peace treaty three years later. Under the terms of the peace settlement, Yaroslav's son
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There are good reasons to believe that the campaign was not over in 1043 (as Greek sources seem to imply), but continued with the Rus' capture of
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narrates that Yaroslav sent his son Vladimir to seize the Crimean emporia of the Greek empire, notably Chersonesos.
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in 1045 with his prior victory over the Greeks. The cathedral formerly boasted the so-called
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shore. According to the Slavonic chronicles, the Rus' fleet was destroyed by a tempest.
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relate that the copper Korsun Gate of the cathedral was seized by the Novgorodians in
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the situation would be almost identical to the conquest of Chersonesos by
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of Korsun and other early 11th-century Greek items (some of them still
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Historical naval raid against Constantinople by the Kievan Rus'
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was also present. A 6,000-strong Ruthenian contingent under
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Novgorodian traditions link Vladimir's foundation of the
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The reasons for the war are disputed, as is its course.
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of the Rus'. They were sunk by the Ruthenian admiral
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sent a squadron of 14 ships to pursue the dispersed
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was, in essence, an unsuccessful naval raid against
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La derniere expedition Russe contre Constantinople.
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Constantinople
Byzantine Empire
Byzantine Empire
Kievan Rus'
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Paphlagonia (830s)
Constantinople (860)
Constantinople (907)
Bosporus & Bithynia (941)
Thrace & Bulgaria (970–971)
Lemnos (1024)
Constantinople & Aegean Sea (1043)
Constantinople
Yaroslav the Wise
Vladimir of Novgorod
Michael Psellus
Kievan Rus'
Greek fire
Anatolian
Byzantines
monoxyla
Ivan Tvorimich

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