Varangian. Hero. Mazin A.V.

He was a military leader of a small Dnieper principality, but in front of him fell the Khazar Kaganate and the Bulgarian kingdom. He gathered the Varangians and Vikings, Hungarians and Pechenegs under his banners. He fought and spoke on equal terms with the emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire. He did not manage to create his own empire. But he managed to gain eternal fame. The first great commander of our history is the Grand Duke of Kiev Svyatoslav.