РЮРИКОВИЧИ Святослав Игоревич

Abt 0942 - 0972  (30 years)

• Name	РЮРИКОВИЧИ Святослав Игоревич
  Birth	Abt 0942	Kievan Rus
  Gender	Male
  Death	26 Mar 0972	near Dnieper River, Kiev, Kievan Rus
  Notes	Sviatoslav I Igorevich (Old East Slavic: С~тославъ / Свѧтославъ[1] Игорєвичь, Sventoslavŭ / Svantoslavŭ Igorevičǐ; Russian: Святослав Игоревич, Sviatoslav Igorevich; Ukrainian: Святослав Ігорович, Sviatoslav Ihorovych; Bulgarian: Светослав, Svetoslav, Greek: Σφενδοσθλάβος, Sphendosthlabos) (c. 942 – March 972), also spelled Svyatoslav, was a prince of Rus. [1] Name: Sviatoslav (Suitislaus) Kiev Given Name: Sviatoslav (Suitislaus) Surname: Kiev Name: Sviatoslav I of Kiev Given Name: Sviatoslav I of Kiev Name: Svyatoslav I Name: Sviatoslav I The Brave Name: Svyatoslav of KIEV Name Suffix: , Grand Duke of Kiev Name Suffix: [Grand Duke of] Title Grand Duke of Kiev Prince of Kiev Birth 942 Born between 920 - 945 [2] Appearance Sviatoslav's appearance has been described very clearly by Leo the Deacon, who himself attended the meeting of Sviatoslav with John I Tzimiskes. Following Deacon's memories, Sviatoslav was a blue-eyed male of average height but of stalwart build, much more sturdy than Tzimiskes. He shaved his blond head and his beard but wore a bushy mustache and a sidelock as a sign of his nobility.[11] He preferred to dress in white, and it was noted that his garments were much cleaner than those of his men, although he had a lot in common with his warriors. He wore a single large gold earring bearing a carbuncle and two pearls.[3] Event Type: lis. Father: , Igor I of Kiev, Prince of Kiev, b. ABT 875 Mother: , Olga of Kiev, Regent of Kiev, b. ABT 890 Associated with , Malusha Child 1: , Vladimir (St.) the Great of Kiev, Grand Prince of Kiev, b. 960 Married to , Predeslava of Hungary Child 2: , Yaropolk I of Kiev, Prince of Kiev, b. ABT 958 Child 3: , Oleg, b. ABT 959 Religion Religion: Wikipedia: Sviatoslav remained a staunch pagan all of his life Sviatoslav's mother, Olga, converted to Eastern Orthodox Christianity at the court of Byzantine Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus in 957.[4] However, Sviatoslav remained a pagan all of his life. In the treaty of 971 between Sviatoslav and the Byzantine emperor John I Tzimiskes, the Rus' are swearing by Perun and Veles.[5] According to the Primary Chronicle, he believed that his warriors (druzhina) would lose respect for him and mock him if he became a Christian.[6] The allegiance of his warriors was of paramount importance in his conquest of an empire that stretched from the Volga to the Danube.[7] Death MAR 972 973 Kiev, Ukraine Dnieper Cataracts, Russia Age: 30-31 Cause: Ambushed and killed by the Pecheneg warriors of Khan Kurya, his skull was made into a chalice for Kurya. Sviatoslav Sculpure Sviatoslav_sculputre Sources ↑ Wikipedia: Sviatoslav_I_of_Kiev ↑ Бахрушин С. В. Держава Рюриковичей // Вестник древней истории. – 1938. – № 2. — М., 1938. — С. 88-98. ↑ Vernadsky 276–277. The sidelock is reminiscent of Turkic hairstyles and practices and was later mimicked by Cossacks. Wikipedia: Sviatoslav_I_of_Kiev#cite_note-12 ↑ Based on his analysis of De Ceremoniis, Alexander Nazarenko hypothesizes that Olga hoped to orchestrate a marriage between Sviatoslav and a Byzantine princess. If her proposal was peremptorily declined (as it most certainly would have been), it is hardly surprising that Sviatoslav would look at Byzantium and her Christian culture with suspicion. Nazarenko 302. ↑ Russian traditional culture: religion, gender, and customary law, Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer. Books.google.com. p. 4. Retrieved 2012-06-17. ↑ Primary Chronicle ↑ Wikipedia: Sviatoslav_I_of_Kiev#cite_note-13
  Person ID	I58812	Freeman-Smith
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026

  
  

  Father	РЮРИКОВИЧ Игорь,   b. Abt 0877, Novgorod, Kievan Rus d. Abt 0945, Iskorosten, Kievan Rus (Age 68 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	UNKNOWN Ольга,   b. Abt 0890, Pskov, Russia d. 11 Jul 0969, Kiev, Kievan Rus (Age 79 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F26165	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	LUBECH Малуша,   b. 0944, Kiev, Kyiv, Kievan Rus d. Abt 1000, Brestovo, Kharkiv, Kievan Rus (Age ~ 55 years)
  Children	1. РЮРИКОВИЧИ Владимир Святославич,   b. Abt 0956, Kiev, Kyiv, Kievan Rus d. Abt 15 Jul 1015, Berestovo, Kiev, Kyiv, Kievan Rus (Age 59 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F26164	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026