What did the people of Kiev reproach their Grand Duke Svyatoslav Igorevich for? Detailed answer

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What did the people of Kiev reproach their Grand Duke Svyatoslav Igorevich for?

The Grand Duke of Kyiv Svyatoslav Igorevich (? -972) went down in history not so much as the ruler of his own land, but as a conqueror of someone else's.

Svyatoslav spent almost his entire short adult life on campaigns, away from his home. The Kyiv state at that time was actually ruled by his mother, Princess Olga. The prince went on his first campaign in 964, and died in the spring of 972. During these 8 years, Svyatoslav made: two campaigns against the Vyatichi, the defeat of the Khazar Khaganate (which led to its almost complete destruction), the conquest of Danube Bulgaria, the repulse of the Pechenegs’ onslaught on Russia, a two-year war with Byzantium, during which the Greeks, only at the cost of the greatest exertion of forces, managed to stop Russian squads that directly threatened their capital.

The native state, Kievan Rus, did not occupy a dominant place in the mind of the prince, but seemed to him only a part (and not the most important one) of the great Slavic empire, which he planned to create on the Danube. The people of Kiev reproached their prince: "You, prince, are looking for someone else's land, but you neglect your own." And Svyatoslav only confirmed the correctness of their reproach, saying to his mother and the boyars: "It is not pleasant for me to be in Kyiv."

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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Sugar solutions made from molasses, potatoes, rye, wheat, malt and hops, apples and grapes have been exposed to air to produce alcohol, whiskey, beer, ale, cider and other beverages. Perhaps someone accidentally noticed that if the dough for baking bread stands for a while, then a specific process often takes place in it. The flat surface of the dough mysteriously began to bulge and rise. It gave off a strange but pleasant smell. When this dough was baked, instead of a flat, heavy cake, it turned out to be a light, porous, soft bread!

In 1857, Louis Pasteur announced that he had found an explanation for these changes, which he said were due to tiny, single-celled plants called yeasts. Yeasts belong to the fungus family and are small, round, colorless particles. They are larger than ordinary bacteria, but still so small that they would need to be stacked in a row from 1200 to 1600 to get a chain 1 centimeter long.

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Beer, ale, wine and cider are all fermented drinks in which yeast has converted some of the sugar into carbon dioxide and alcohol. In baking, carbon dioxide bubbles up in the dough, causing the dough to rise. The heat in the oven then removes the dioxide, and the bread becomes porous and light.

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