1. Siege and entry into Kyiv

   0980-01-01 · Kyiv, Ukraine

   

   Vladimir advanced on Kyiv in the succession struggle with Yaropolk, besieged the city from Dorogozhichi, and subsequently entered Kyiv. The cited Primary Chronicle chronology gives 980; the canonical English biography dates the taking of Kyiv to 978.

All 20 moments of Vladimir the Great →