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Sviatoslav or Svyatoslav (both: svyä`təsləv), d. 972, duke of Kiev (945–72), son of Igor Igor (ē`gôr, Russ. ē`gər) or Ihor ..... Click the link for more information. and of St. Olga. His mother acted as regent for him until c.962, when he came of age. During his reign, which was spent in conquests, he created an empire that stretched from the Volga to the Danube. By 965 he had defeated the Volga Bulgars and the Khazars, thus bringing under Kievan control the entire area of the Volga River. Then, as an ally of the Byzantine Empire, which was at war with the Bulgars, Sviatoslav defeated the Bulgars of the Danube (968) and further extended Kievan control in the Balkans. He was forced to give up the Balkan lands (971), however, in a war with the Byzantine emperor John I. On his way back to Kiev, Sviatoslav was slain by the Pechenegs Pechenegs (pĕchənĕgz`) or Patzinaks ..... Click the link for more information. (or Patzinaks). |
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Here was an American who had created a sensation among Russian audiences, playing the Tchaikowsky First Concerto and Rachmaninoff Third Concerto in the Great Hall of the venerable Moscow Conservatory; an American who had made the great Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter cry; a tall, lanky, boyish and charming American who, after the competition, was embraced by the short, stout, weathered and austere Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev. She was married twice, on both occasions to dancers, the first being Nicolai Zubkovsky, whose name she adopted professionally, and later to Sviatoslav Kusnetsov. The International Skating Union barred Alfred Kortyek of Ukraine and Sviatoslav Babenko of Russia from officiating at any of its championships or any international event under its jurisdiction. |
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