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Svyatoslav Igorevich1
b. before 915, d. circa 973, #24169
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Father   Igor Rubicowitz b. circa 877, d. circa 947
Mother   Olga (Helene) Regent of Kiev; Princess of Pskov b. circa 885, d. 11 July 969

Name Variation Svyatoslav Igorevich was also found as Suietislaus Igorowitz. 
Birth* before 915 Svyatoslav was born before 915.2,3 
!AInfoNew* 946 His life in brief:
946 AD - Svyatoslav campaigns with his mother against the Derevlians to avenge his father's death at Iskorosten.
956 AD Svyatoslav begins serious campaigning with march against the Vyatichians. He frees them from tribute to the Khazars and orders payment to himself instead.
965 AD - Svyatoslav conducts extended campaign against the Khazars sacking their towns Sarkel and Itel and conquering the Yasians and Kasogians in the Kuban - Taman area. He controls Tmutorokan port on the Sea of Azov.
967 AD - Svyatoslav conducts extended campaign against the Bulgarians in the Balkans as far as the Danube River.
968 AD - He has to rush back to Kyiv to relieve the city from a Pecheneg attack. Then he drives the Pecheneg into the steppe.
969 - 71 AD - He returns to the Balkans where he retakes Pereyaslavets from the Bulgars but is defeated by the Byzantines and forced to sign a peace treaty.
972-3 He is ambushed and killed while returning to Kyiv by the Pecheneg at the Dniper rapids.4 
AssocWith* circa 959 Svyatoslav was associated with Malusha of Lubech though not married. Malusha was a servant girl. Her parents had been killed in one of the uprising so common in early Russia. She and her older brother were saved by Olga, the wife of Igor and the mother of Svyatoslav.2,5,6,7 
Death* circa 973
Svyatoslav died circa 973.5,6,2 
Name Variation Svyatoslav Igorevich was also found as Svyatoslav I Grand Duke of Kiev.5 
Name Variation Svyatoslav Igorevich was also found as Svatislav I.8 
Name Variation Svyatoslav Igorevich was also found as Svyatoslav I Suitislaus Prince of Kiev.6 

Family   Malusha of Lubech b. circa 940
Child  1. Saint Vladimir I Grand Duke of Kiev+ b. c 955, d. 15 Jul 1015

Citations
  1. Download, http://www.xenophongi.org/rushistory/rulers/svyatoslav1.htm.
  2. [S9890] Your Family Tree.
  3. Download, Dr. Suzanne Doig Rootsweb gives 942. This would make his father about 60 years old. Not impossible, but not probable..
  4. Download, www.belarustourist.minsk.by/common/history/names/rogneda.
  5. [S10141] BigKings Pedigree, online Church Yard Genealogies, dates not consistent.
  6. Download, Dr. Suzanne Doig Rootsweb.
  7. Download, http://www.gendex.com/users/jast/D0018/G0000034.html#I7329.
  8. Download, http://www.gendex.com/users/jast/D0021/G0000078.html#I2423
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