Sviatoslav I, Grand Prince of Kiev

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• Name	Sviatoslav I
  Suffix	Grand Prince of Kiev
  Gender	Male
  Death	972  [1, 2]
  Person ID	I4510	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	23 Nov 2018

  
  

  Father	Igor of Kiev, Ruler of the Kievan Rus   d. 945
  Mother	St. Olga of Kiev,   b. Abt 890, Pskov, Russia d. 11 Jul 969, Kiev, Ukraine (Age ~ 79 years)
  Family ID	F570	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Malusha
  Children	1. St. Vladimir of Kiev, Grand Prince of Kiev   d. 15 Jul 1015, Berestovo, west of Kiev
  Family ID	F6447	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Apr 2024

  
  

• Notes

  "Svyatoslav remained a pagan, saying that if he converted, 'My men would laugh at that.' He is the first Kievan ruler of the line to have a purely Slavic name and be given a proper history in the chronicle, yet much of this must have come from oral tradition. He set out to expand his realm by conquest and thought of moving his capital to Pereyaslavets on the Danube, but after a lengthy campaign against the Byzantines he was ambushed and killed in 972 by the Pechenegs, who are said to have made a drinking up out of his skull." ["Ryurik and the First Ryurikids", citation details below.]

  
  

• Sources

  [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008. [S2417] Norman W. Ingham and Christian Raffensperger, "Ryurik and the First Ryurikids: Context, Problems, Sources." The American Genealogist 82:1; 82:111, January 2007.