Editing Russians (section)

=== Medieval history ===
{{main|Kievan Rus'|Grand Duchy of Moscow|Tsardom of Russia}}
[[File:Lebedev baptism.jpg|thumb|''The [[Baptism of Kievans]]'', by [[Klavdy Lebedev]]]]
The Rus' state was established in northern Russia in the year 862,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Roesdahl |first1=Else |title=The Vikings |date=30 April 1998 |publisher=Penguin UK |isbn=978-0-14-194153-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S9XNbDqS7dsC |language=en |access-date=2 September 2023 |archive-date=7 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230907233142/https://books.google.com/books?id=S9XNbDqS7dsC |url-status=live}}</ref> which was ruled by the [[Varangians]].{{sfn|Borrero|2004|p=3}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Riasanovsky |first1=Nicholas V. |title=Russian Identities: A Historical Survey |year=2005 |publisher=Oxford University Press, USA |isbn=978-0-19-515650-8 |page=18 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xno8DwAAQBAJ |archive-date=28 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230928153551/https://books.google.com/books?id=Xno8DwAAQBAJ |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Staraya Ladoga]] and [[Veliky Novgorod|Novgorod]] became the first major cities of the new union of immigrants from [[Scandinavia]] with the Slavs and [[Finnic peoples|Finns]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Russian Nationalism, Past and Present |publisher=Springer |year=1998 |isbn=9781349265329 |editor-last=Hosking |editor-first=Geoffrey |page=8 |editor-last2=Service |editor-first2=Robert}}</ref> In 882, the prince [[Oleg the Wise|Oleg]] seized [[Kiev]], thereby uniting the northern and southern lands of the [[East Slavs]] under one authority.{{sfn|Borrero|2004|p=3}} The state [[Christianization of Kievan Rus'|adopted Christianity]] from the [[Byzantine Empire]] in 988. [[Kievan Rus']] ultimately disintegrated as a state as a result of in-fighting between members of the princely family that ruled it collectively.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Channon |first1=John |last2=Hudson |first2=Robert |title=The Penguin Historical Atlas of Russia |date=1995 |publisher=Viking |isbn=978-0-670-86461-4 |page=16 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kewWAQAAIAAJ |language=en |access-date=2 September 2023 |archive-date=7 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230907233145/https://books.google.com/books?id=kewWAQAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>

After the 13th century, [[Moscow]] became a political and cultural center. Moscow has become a center for the [[Collector of Russian lands|unification of Russian lands]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Moss |first1=Walter G. |title=A History of Russia Volume 1: To 1917 |date=1 July 2003 |publisher=Anthem Press |isbn=978-1-84331-023-5 |page=88 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bHdPAgAAQBAJ |language=en |access-date=2 September 2023 |archive-date=28 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230928153551/https://books.google.com/books?id=bHdPAgAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> By the end of the 15th century, Moscow united the northeastern and northwestern Russian principalities, overthrew the "Mongol yoke" in 1480,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Chew |first1=Allen F. |title=An Atlas of Russian History: Eleven Centuries of Changing Borders |date=1 January 1970 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-01445-7 |page=14 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5ShZK2-Fz-kC |language=en |access-date=2 September 2023 |archive-date=7 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230907233142/https://books.google.com/books?id=5ShZK2-Fz-kC |url-status=live }}</ref> and would be transformed into the [[Tsardom of Russia]] after [[Ivan the Terrible|Ivan IV]] was crowned tsar in 1547.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Payne |first1=Robert |last2=Romanoff |first2=Nikita |title=Ivan the Terrible |date=1 October 2002 |publisher=Cooper Square Press |isbn=978-1-4616-6108-5 |page=67 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p1abtsPCPm8C |language=en |access-date=2 September 2023 |archive-date=28 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230928153552/https://books.google.com/books?id=p1abtsPCPm8C |url-status=live }}</ref>