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Plate 1. Warrior and woman. This couple was buried in a chamber grave in the burial
ground at Shestovitsa, near Chernigov, around the mid-tenth century. The woman was
almost certainly a slave – perhaps a favourite – put to death at the time of the warrior’s
funeral. A horse was also slaughtered and placed in the grave. The warrior’s sword is of
‘H-type’ (Petersen’s classification) and was probably manufactured in Western Europe,
perhaps the Rhineland. The rich inventory includes a battle knife; quiverful of arrows;
weights for balances; and a kind of tool kit. See p. 58.
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Plate 2. Coins of Vladimir I. Like contemporary leaders in Scandinavia and Poland,
Vladimir issued coins soon after adopting Christianity. All his gold coins, and Type I of his
silver coins (srebreniki) copy the design of the gold nomismata of his brothers-in-law,
Emperors Basil II and Constantine VIII (976–1025). Vladimir’s gold coins, few in number
and struck over a fairly short period, are generally competently executed. See p. 69.
Plate 2a. Srebrenik of Vladimir, Type I
Plate 2a (i). Christ the Lord of All (Pantokrator), crudely rendered, but features such as the
cross-nimbus behind Christ’s head and His Gospel Book are still recognisable. The legend
is in mirror-writing and reads from right to left.
Plate 2a (ii). Vladimir’s crown and its pendants are schematic, his body stunted, but – like
the Byzantine emperors in the original design – he holds a cross with a long staff. Over his
left shoulder is a trident-like authority symbol, most probably adapted from Khazar usage.
Plate 2b. Srebrenik of Vladimir, Type II. Vladimir’s srebreniki, which were issued in sizeable
quantities, underwent substantial debasement in silver content and degradation from the
Byzantine-derived design. Type II is of slightly later date than Type I, c.1000–1015.
Plate 2b (i). Vladimir’s face and crown have merged into a cross encircled by a nimbus.
Plate 2b (ii). Vladimir’s authority symbol – probably a familiar sight to the Rus’ moneyer –
has replaced the Pantokrator and is rendered clearly and competently.
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Plate 3. Monumental mosaic of the Theotokos (Mother of God) in the apse of the church
of St Sophia in Kiev; mid-eleventh century. See p. 96.
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Plate 4. St Luke the Evangelist. Manuscript miniature; 1057; from the Ostromir Gospel, the
oldest surviving dated Slavonic book. See p. 96.
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Plate 5. Mosaic of St Mark writing his Gospel, in the church of St Sophia in Kiev;
mid-eleventh century. All the inscriptions (the evangelist’s name, and the text of his
Gospel on the lectern) are in Greek. See p. 96.
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Plate 6. Icon of Saints Boris and Gleb; early fourteenth century. Boris and Gleb were sons
of Prince Vladimir Sviatoslavich (the Kievan prince who made Christianity the official
religion of Rus’). Murdered in 1015 by their brother, Boris and Gleb were among the very
earliest natives of Rus’ to be venerated as saints. See p. 96.
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Plate 7. The defeat of Prince Igor’ Sviatoslavich by the Polovtsy at the Battle of the Kaiala
River in 1185. See p. 115. Miniatures from the fifteenth-century Radzivil Chronicle.
Plate 7a. Sviatoslav Ol’govich pursuing the fleeing Polovtsy.
Plate 7b. Vsevolod Sviatoslavich fighting on foot (left scene) and Igor”s capture (right
scene).
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Plate 8. The reconstructed church of St Paraskeva Piatnitsa, Chernigov (early thirteenth
century).
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Plate 9. The ‘Novgorod psalter’, one of a set of three waxed wooden writing tablets with
texts from the psalms, discovered by archaeologists in July 2000. Novgorod, early eleventh
century. See p. 193.
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Plate 10. Grand Prince Vasilii III. From the first (Latin) edition of Baron Sigismund von
Herberstein’s account of Russia, published in Basel in 1556.
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