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Byzantine missionaries spread Orthodox Christianity, the religion of the Byzantine Empire, to Russia. The Grand Prince of Kiev converted to this form of Christianity and promised to Christianise the Russians in order to negotiate for the hand of Anna, the sister of the Byzantine emperor Basil II. This was a bold move as never before had a Byzantine princess married to a foreigner. After his baptism he took on the Christian name in honours of his father-in-law. This was the beginning of good relations between the Russians and the Byzantines.
Sophia Paleologue, the niece of the last Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI, married Ivan III of Russia in the 1472, after the fall of the Byzantine Empire to the Turks. Ivan III was also known as Ivan the Great for his expansion of Russian borders. In 1510 a Russian monk argued that Russia should be the Third Rome. Constantinople, the Byzantine capital, had been called the Second Rome. Now Russia should become the Third Rome as a Christian Tsardom and the bastion of Christianity in Eastern Europe. The title for the Russian Emperor, "tsar" is actually a corruption of the Latin name "Caesar."
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How did the Russians have an effect on the byzantine empire?
the contact with the byzantine empire with the russians was that russia learned many cultural aspects and other languages including art work.
How was the church and state linked in the Byzantine empire?
Islam
What part of the byzantine empire did the Russians attack?
The KIevan Rus' attacked Constantinople and the Bosphorus.
What event made Russians feel more closer to the Byzantine Empire?
Rus'-Byzantine relations became closer following the marriage of the porphyrogenita Anna to Vladimir the Great, and the subsequent Christianization of the Rus'
How was Russia influenced by the Byzantines?
Byzantine influence on Russia was really important because Russians adopted aspects of byzantine culture, such as art,music,and architecture. As a result, Byzantine domes evolved into the onion-shaped domes typical of Russian churches.
What wa the relationship between religion and government in the Byzantine empire?
They were very closeley linked. Ex: Patriarch is a bishop of an important city. And the emperor was closely linked within/to this.
What empire did empress theodora live in?
She lived in the Byzantine empire, or the eastern Roman empire.She lived in the Byzantine empire, or the eastern Roman empire.She lived in the Byzantine empire, or the eastern Roman empire.She lived in the Byzantine empire, or the eastern Roman empire.She lived in the Byzantine empire, or the eastern Roman empire.She lived in the Byzantine empire, or the eastern Roman empire.She lived in the Byzantine empire, or the eastern Roman empire.She lived in the Byzantine empire, or the eastern Roman empire.She lived in the Byzantine empire, or the eastern Roman empire.
What empire followed the Byzantine empire?
The Holy Roman Empire followed the Byzantine Empire.
Way in which the eastern byzantine was diffrent from the weastern byzantine empire?
There is no such thing as a western Byzantine Empire, only an east (Byzantine) and west Roman Empire.
Who is stronger the holy roman empire of the byzantine empire?
Byzantine Empire. No doubt about it.
In the Byzantine empire the empire did what?
The Byzantine Empire in the year of 1453 to The Ottoman Turks.
What was Russia's connection with the eastern Roman Empire?
One connection between the Eastern Roman Empire (which historians also call Byzantine Empire) and Russia was the conversion of Russia to Orthodox Christianity (the religion of the Byzantine Empire) by Byzantine missionaries. This religion became Russia's religion in 989. The other connection was royal marriage. Soon after the fall of the Byzantine Empire and the capture of its capital, Constantinople, by the Ottoman Turks, Ivan III of Russia, who had married Sophia Paleologue, a niece of Constantine XI, the last Byzantine emperor, claimed that he was the heir of the fallen Empire. The Russians also saw themselves as the upholders of the religion of the Byzantine Empire, which had been taken over by the Muslim Turks. In 1501 a Russian monk, Filofey, wrote an ode to Ivan's successor, Vasili III, in which he said that: "Two Romes have fallen [Rome and Constantinople]. The third stands. And there will be no fourth. No one shall replace your Christian Tsardom!" The Russians called Russia the "Third Rome."
