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Kievan Rus, first East Slavic state.

The consecutive history of the first East Slavic state begins with Prince Svyatoslav (died 972).

Kievan Rus was the first eastern Slavic state, which existed from the ninth to the thirteenth centuries, and it remained a center of Russian Orthodox learning.

As the centre of Kievan Rus, the first eastern Slavic state, 1,000 years ago, it acquired the title "Mother of Rus Cities".

It was at the lavra that the monk Nestor helped compile the earliest surviving chronicle of the East Slavic state of Rus.

"Even before Moscow, there was Kievan Rus, and there was beer even then!" he said, referring to the eastern Slavic state that existed from the 800s to 1200s.

Russia's Black Sea fleet commander, Admiral Eduard Baltin, alarmed Ukrainians this week by calling for 'an economic, political and military drawing together of the two Slavic states'.

Murad captured many fortified places near Constantinople (now Istanbul) and used internal troubles in Byzantium and the Slavic states to extend Turkish conquests in the Balkan peninsula.

At its core are the three eastern Slavic states, Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine, which Kirill I, the movement's unofficial leader, believes must maintain spiritual and cultural unity under the Russian Orthodox Church.This construct fulfills both domestic and international goals.

The first Slavic state-like entity, the Samo's Realm of King Samo, originally a Frankish trader, was close to Poland (in Bohemia and Moravia, parts of Pannonia and more southern regions between the Oder and Elbe rivers) and existed during the 623 658 period.

In the 9th century, the castles at Bratislava (Brezalauspurc) and Devín (Dowina) were important centres of the Slavic states: the Principality of Nitra and Great Moravia.