Grand Duke Igor KIEV

   Another name for Igor was KIEV Grand Duke.

   Ancestral File Number: B6DN-ZQ. User ID: 2420447848.

   General Notes:

Grand Duke of KIEV Reigned 912-945.

7th Great Grandfather of Alexander Nevsky, 14th Great Grandfather of Ivan III the Great, and 16th Great Grandfather of Ivan IV the Terrible.

BOOKS
Barber Grandparents: 125 Kings, 143 Generations, Ted Butler Bernard and Gertrude Barber Bernard, 1978, McKinney TX, p80: "321R Igor, Czar of Russia, (S of 309, F of 334); led an expedition against Constantinople which failed, and then another which was successful; he established a favorable commercial treaty with Constantinople on his second expedition, but was killed on his return to Russia by Drevelin Tribes; married Olga who assumed regency following his death; she was the first Russian leader to be baptized into the Christian Faith, but failed to establish it among the Russians; she was later canonizedas a Saint and known as St. Olga."

Wall Chart of World History, Edward Hull, 1988, Studio Editions, Russia, 878: "Igor, Duke of Kiev 878-900..."

The New Columbia Encyclopedia, 1975, p1312, Igor: "Died 945, Duke of Kiev (912-945), successor of Oleg. According to the Russian `Primary Chronicle', a medieval history, Igor was the son of Rurik, founder of the Russian princely line. Igor's expedition (941) against Constantinople was routed by the Greeks, and in 945 he concluded a new commercial treaty with the Byzantines. He was killed by rebellious Slavic tribesmen while attempting to collect tribute. His wife St Olga, served as regent for the son Sviatoslav after Igor's death."
p1477, Kievan Russia: "...[Oleg's] successorswere Igor (reigned 912-945) and Igor's widow, St Olga, who was regent until about 962..."

Encyclopaedia Britannica 1981 Micropaedia Vol VIII p720 Rurik Dynasty: "...Igor allegedly Rurik's son, ruled 912-945..."

The Story of Civilization, Will Durant, Vol IV, The Age of Faith, Bk IV, The Dark Ages, Ch XVIII, The Byzantine World, Sec VII, The Birth of Russia, p448: "...Kiev remained the Commercial and political focus of Russia. It gathered under its power an extensive hinterland; and its earliest rulers- Askold, Oleg, and Igor- rather than Rurik at Novgorod, might justly be called the founders of the Russian state. Oleg, Igor and the able Princess Olga (Igor's widow), and her warrior son Sviatoslav (962-972) widened the Kievan realm until it embraced nearly all the eastern Slavonic tribes, and the towns of Polotsk, Smolensk, Chernigov, and Rostov. Between 860 and 1043 the young principality made six attempts to take Constantinople; so old is the Russian drive to the Bosporus, the Russian hunger for secure access to the Mediterranean."

ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File Ver 4.10 B6DN-ZQ Igor Grand Duke of KIEV Born 877 Novgorod Novgorod Russia Mar 903 Pskov Pskov Russia Died 945 Kiev Kiev Ukraine.

INTERNATIONAL GENEALOGICAL INDEX
IGI Birth T990002-20-1126128NONE Igor Grand Duke of KIEV Father Ryurik Grand Duke of KIEV Mother Efenda Grand Duchess of KIEV 877 Novograd-Volynsky Ukraine USSR.

IGI Marriage T990002-82-1126128NONE Igor Grand Duke of KIEV Spouse Olga P Grand Duchess of KIEV 903 Pestovatka Russia USSR.

   Marriage Information:

Igor married Regent Saint Olga KIEV in 903 in Peskovatka, Pskov, Russia. (Regent Saint Olga KIEV was born about 890-920 in Pskov, Pskov, Russia, christened about 957 in Constantinople, Byzantium, Turkey and died on 11 Jul 969 in Kiev, Kiev, Ukraine.)