Jacob The Monk
Jacob the Monk ( uk, Яків Чорноризець; russian: Иаков Черноризец) was an 11th-century monk and author in Kievan Rus'.AA Zimin, 'Pamjat' i pohvala Jakova mniha i zitie knjazja Vladimira po drevnejsemu spisku emorial and Panegyric of Jacob the Monk and Life of Prince Vladimir in the Most Ancient Version, Kratkie soobscenija Instituta He is known for an ode to Vladimir the Great in honor of his conversion of Kievan Rus to Christianity in 988, as well as a work on Boris and Gleb Boris and Gleb ( orv, Борисъ и Глѣбъ, ''Borisŭ i Glěbŭ''; russian: Борис и Глеб, ''Boris i Gleb''; ua, Борис і Гліб, ''Borys i Hlib''), Christian names Roman and David, respectively ( orv, Романъ, Дав ....Vlasto, A. P. (1970). ''The Entry of the Slavs Into Christendom: An Introduction to the Medieval History of the Slavs.'' CUP Archive References Monks from Kievan Rus' 11th-century people from Kievan Rus' Writers from Kievan Ru ...
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Kievan Rus'
Kievan Rusʹ, also known as Kyivan Rusʹ ( orv, , Rusĭ, or , , ; Old Norse: ''Garðaríki''), was a state in Eastern and Northern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century.John Channon & Robert Hudson, ''Penguin Historical Atlas of Russia'' (Penguin, 1995), p.14–16.Kievan Rus
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encompassing a variety of polities and peoples, including East Slavic, Norse, and Finnic, it was ruled by the , fou ...
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