✦ Time paradoxes · Closer than it seems
Baptism of Rus: 988; Ivan the Terrible: 1530–1584; Moon landing: 1969 — 542 years between the first two, 439 years between the last two (counting from birth).
Ivan the Terrible lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the Christianization of Rus.
Who and what
- Christianization of Kievan Rus'988 · Kiev. Vladimir ties Rus' to the Orthodox Byzantine world
- Ivan the Terrible1530–1584 · first Tsar of Russia
- Moon landing1969 · Cape Canaveral. Humans set foot on another world for the first time
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