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Birth:           920 
Death:           972 
Cause of Death: slain

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Grand Prince of Perejaslaw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sviatoslav_I_of_Kiev
Sviatoslav I Igorevich (Old East Slavic: ?~??????? / ??????????[1] ?????????, 
Sventoslavu / Svantoslavu Igorevici; Old Norse: Sveinald Ingvarsson) (c. 942 – March 
972), also spelled Svyatoslav was a Grand prince of Kiev[2][3] famous for his 
persistent campaigns in the east and south, which precipitated the collapse of two 
great powers of Eastern Europe, Khazaria and the First Bulgarian Empire. He also 
conquered numerous East Slavic tribes, defeated the Alans and attacked the Volga 
Bulgars,[4][5] and at times was allied with the Pechenegs and Magyars.

His decade-long reign over the Kievan Rus' was marked by rapid expansion into the 
Volga River valley, the Pontic steppe, and the Balkans. By the end of his short life, 
Sviatoslav carved out for himself the largest state in Europe, eventually moving his 
capital in 969 from Kiev (modern-day Ukraine) to Pereyaslavets (identified as the 
modern village of Nufaru, Romania[6]) on the Danube. In contrast with his mother's 
conversion to Christianity, Sviatoslav remained a staunch pagan all of his life. Due to 
his abrupt death in ambush, his conquests, for the most part, were not consolidated 
into a functioning empire, while his failure to establish a stable succession led to a 
fratricidal feud among his three sons, resulting in two of them being killed.
Name[edit]

The Primary Chronicle records Sviatoslav as the first ruler of the Kievan Rus' with a 
name of Slavic origin (as opposed to his predecessors, whose names had Old Norse 
forms). The name Sviatoslav, however, is not recorded in other medieval Slavic 
countries. Nevertheless, Sveinald is the Old East Norse cognate with the Slavic form 
as attested in the Old East Norse patronymic of Sviatoslav's son Vladimir: Valdamarr 
Sveinaldsson. This patronymic naming convention continues in Icelandic and in East 
Slavic languages. Even in Rus', it was attested only among the members of the house 
of Rurik, as were the names of Sviatoslav's immediate successors: Vladimir, Yaroslav, 
and Mstislav.[7][need quotation to verify] Some scholars see the name of Sviatoslav, 
composed of the Slavic roots for "holy" and "glory", as an artificial derivation 
combining the names of his predecessors Oleg and Rurik (whose names mean "holy" 
and "glorious" in Old Norse, respectively).[8]
Very little is known of Sviatoslav's family life. It is possible that he was not the only (or 
the eldest) son of his parents. The Russo-Byzantine treaty of 945 mentions a certain 
Predslava, Volodislav's wife, as the noblest of the Rus' women after Olga. The fact 
that Predslava was Oleg's mother is presented by Vasily Tatishchev. He also 
speculated that Predslava was of a Hungarian nobility. George Vernadsky was among 
many historians to speculate that Volodislav was Igor's eldest son and heir who died 
at some point during Olga's regency. Another chronicle told that Oleg (? - 944?) was 
the eldest son of Igor. At the time of Igor's death, Sviatoslav was still a child, and he 
was raised by his mother or under her instructions. Her influence, however, did not 
extend to his religious observance.
 
Sviatoslav had several children, but the origin of his wives is not specified in the 
chronicle. By his wives, he had Yaropolk and Oleg.[17] By Malusha, a woman of 
indeterminate origins,[18] Sviatoslav had Vladimir, who would ultimately break with his 
father's paganism and convert Rus' to Christianity. John Skylitzes reported that 
Vladimir had a brother named Sfengus; whether this Sfengus was a son of Sviatoslav, 
a son of Malusha by a prior or subsequent husband, or an unrelated Rus' nobleman is 
unclear.[19

Parents
____ Igor I ( 877 -  945)
____ Olga ( 890 - 11 Jul  969)

Siblings
IGORJEWITSCH Avatislav (Svyatoslav) I ( 920 -  972)

Marriage To OF LUBECK Maloucha (Malusha) (Malfreda) (Debrima) (ABT  934 - 1002)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
OF LUBECK Mal (Malk) (ABT  900 - )
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Children by OF LUBECK Maloucha (Malusha) (Malfreda) (Debrima) ABT  934 - 1002
SWJATOSLAWITSCH VLADIMIR I "The Great" ( 955 - 15 Jul 1015)

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