Igor of Kiev
c. 878 – 945 · 67 years · Kiev · Eastern Europe & Russia
Reign: 912 – 945 (Rus and Russia)
Son of Rurik and husband of Princess Olga. He led campaigns against Byzantium in 941 and 944 and concluded a treaty with it; in 945 he was killed by the Drevlians while trying to collect tribute from them a second time.
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Portrait: Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Æthelstan — first king of all England, victor at Brunanburh, 16 years younger
- Otto the Great — founder of the Holy Roman Empire who crushed the Magyars at the Lech, 34 years younger
- Alfred the Great — King of Wessex who held off the Vikings, 29 years older
- Edward the Elder — Alfred's son who won back East Anglia and Mercia from the Danes, 4 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Oleg the Wise — prince who united Novgorod and Kiev and campaigned against Constantinople, 33 years older
- Olga of Kiev — grand princess of Kiev, 42 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 882 Oleg takes Kiev — aged 4, Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 895 Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin — aged 17, Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 900 The bronzes of Igbo-Ukwu — aged 22, Africa
- c. 900 Rise of Chichen Itza — aged 22, Americas
- c. 939 Eldgjá eruption — aged 61, Europe