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the contact with the byzantine empire with the russians was that russia learned many cultural aspects and other languages including art work.
They provided a network for trade between the Byzantine Empire and Russia.
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The Byzantine give to the Kevan Russia way to culture development and Orthodox church.
'Cause at that time there wasn't any more mighty and cultural naighbour around Kievan Russia than Byzantine Empire. And its princes like Oleg and Sviatoslav I of Kiev along with their wariors were very familiar with this Empire through their raids on Constantinopolis.
The Byzantine Empire lost the land they took from Russia they took in the first place, after the death of Justinian 1.
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."
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yes its true