Kievan Rus': Power

• Tale of Bygone Years/Primary Chronicle
• Kiev
• podzol
• chernozem
• steppe
• Khazars
• Varangians
• Byzantine Empire
• Constantinople
• tribute
• Riurik
• Novgorod
• Askold and Dir
• Riurikid dynasty
• Oleg
• Igor
• Olga

Naming:

• imya (first name): Ivan, Olga, Mikhail, Anna
• otchestvo (patronymic = father's name with the ending -ovich for sons, -ovna for daughters): Ivanovich, Ivanovna
• familiya (family name, which also usually shows gender, by adding an -a or a -skaia to the end for women): Ivanov, Ivanova; Dostoevskii, Dostoevskaia
• short-names: Vanya, Olya, Anya, Sasha, Misha...