Kyiv

What this place is

• Imperial capital — the seat of the princes of Rus from 882, when Oleg took the city and called it the mother of the cities of Rus, and Yaroslav's capital to his death in 1054

Seat of

• Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Rus'

Who is recorded here

• Olga of Kiev death · AD 969
• Yaroslav the Wise birth · AD 978
• Michael I of Kyiv death · AD 992
• Theopemptus of Kyiv death · AD 1049
• Hilarion of Kyiv death · AD 1055

What happened here

• First baptism of the Rus' AD 867
• Baptism of Volodymyr and Rus' AD 988
• Founding of Saint Sophia in Kyiv AD 1037
• Synod of Kyiv elevates Hilarion AD 1051

In art

• Entry of Boleslaus the Brave into Kiev. — Wincenty Smokowski (1830)
• Dnieper by Kiev — Abraham A. Manievich (1910)

About the place

Kyiv, also spelt Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both banks of the Dnieper River. As of January 2022, the population of Kyiv was 2,952,301, making it the seventh-most populous city in Europe.

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