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EUGENE ALEXANDRO LANCERAY (Russian. 1848-1886) "Svyatoslav". Signed E. Lanceray in Cyrillic and d...

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EUGENE ALEXANDRO LANCERAY (Russian. 1848-1886) Svyatoslav . Signed E. Lanceray in Cyrillic and d...
EUGENE ALEXANDRO LANCERAY (Russian. 1848-1886) "Svyatoslav". Signed E. Lanceray in Cyrillic and dated 1886. With inscription "year 970 when he went Czargrad. Don't let our enemy come to our land. We will die defending our land." Bronze with Brown Patina. Height 21 1/4". Russian legend says that the Rus were first asked to come to Novgorod by the local population to put an end to their internal feuds. Rurik was the first Knyaz (prince) of Novgorod, but his companions wished to descend the Austrvegr nearer to Byzantium and Oleg settled in Kiev. The annals date the arrival of Rurik in Novgorod A.D. 862. The first reliable datum is Oleg's commercial treaty with the Byzantines. A subsequent treaty was concluded in 945 by Oleg's successor, Igor, together with his companions whose signatures contain three Slovanic names among 50 Norse. The son of Igor and his wife, Olga, had already a Slovanic name, Svyatoslav. However, he remained part Northern Viking as well as part Southern Nomad. He did not yet feel at home in Kiev wanting to be still nearer to Byzantium and chose Pereyaslavets on the Danube because he said "there was the center where all goods gather from all parts". There is a good possibility Lanceray in his inscription refers to Czargrad as Kiev. He was defeated by the Emperor John I Tzimisces and slain on his way back home by the Pechenegs in 972. With him died the Scandinavian tradition of the Kiev Dynasty. $4,000/6,000
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