jaroslaus

Updated: August 7, 2026

After a long peace, Jaroslaus, the great grandson of Igor, resumed the same project of a naval invasion. A fleet, under the command of his son, was repulsed at the entrance of the Bosphorus by the same artificial flames.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5

Sophia were rudely copied in the churches of Kiow and Novogorod: the writings of the fathers were translated into the Sclavonic idiom; and three hundred noble youths were invited or compelled to attend the lessons of the college of Jaroslaus.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5