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Patriarch Photius and the Conversion of the Rus"

Patriarch Photius and the Conversion of the Rus" GEORGE P. MAJESKA (College Park, MD, USA) PATPJARCH PHOTIUS AND THE CONYERSION OF THE RUS" In the year 860, the Rus' attacked the city of Constantinople, burned and pillaged the suburbs, and, to judge from the vivid sermon of Patriarch Photius, sparked an immediate religious revival. A standard Byzantine re- sponse to "barbarian" threats and attacks such as this was an attempt to a) convert the troublesome nation to Christianity and thus (hopefully) defuse its . warlike behavior or, failing that, b) ally with a neighbor of the threatening 2 power.2 . This policy was probably the plan in the minds of the Byzantine decision makers when, shortly after the unexpected attack, they dispatched Professor Constantine the Philosopher (better known as St. Cyril, the Apostle of the Slavs) to Crimea and to the capital of the Khazar Kaganate, the power that dominated the steppe north of the Black and Caspian Seas.3 Why to Khazaria rather than to. Kiev on the Dnieper where the attack is normally assumed to - " have originated? And why Constantine? As far as we know he did not know Turkic, or Hebrew, the lingua franca of the Khazars; he did, however, know Slavic,4 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Russian History Brill

Patriarch Photius and the Conversion of the Rus"

Majeska, George P.
Russian History , Volume 32 (1-4): 413 – Jan 1, 2005
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GEORGE P. MAJESKA (College Park, MD, USA) PATPJARCH PHOTIUS AND THE CONYERSION OF THE RUS" In the year 860, the Rus' attacked the city of Constantinople, burned and pillaged the suburbs, and, to judge from the vivid sermon of Patriarch Photius, sparked an immediate religious revival. A standard Byzantine re- sponse to "barbarian" threats and attacks such as this was an attempt to a) convert the troublesome nation to Christianity and thus (hopefully) defuse its . warlike behavior or, failing that, b) ally with a neighbor of the threatening 2 power.2 . This policy was probably the plan in the minds of the Byzantine decision makers when, shortly after the unexpected attack, they dispatched Professor Constantine the Philosopher (better known as St. Cyril, the Apostle of the Slavs) to Crimea and to the capital of the Khazar Kaganate, the power that dominated the steppe north of the Black and Caspian Seas.3 Why to Khazaria rather than to. Kiev on the Dnieper where the attack is normally assumed to - " have originated? And why Constantine? As far as we know he did not know Turkic, or Hebrew, the lingua franca of the Khazars; he did, however, know Slavic,4

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