Question

What happened at the 1043 Battle of Constantinople?

Answer 1

The final Byzantine Russian War was, in essence an unsuccessful naval raid against Constantinople instigated by Yaroslav I of Klev and led by his eldest son, Vladimir of Novgorod, in 1043.The reasons for the war are disputed,as is its course. Michael Psellus, an eyewitness of the battle. left a hyperbolic account detailing how the invading Kievan Rus were annihilated by a superior imperial fleet with Greek fire off the Anatolian Shore.

Answer 2

The final Byzantine–Russian War was, in essence, an unsuccessful naval raid against Constantinople instigated by Yaroslav I of Kiev and led by his eldest son, Vladimir of Novgorod, in 1043.

The reasons for the war are disputed, as is its course. Michael Psellus, an eyewitness of the battle, left a hyperbolic account detailing how the invading Kievan Rus' were annihilated by a superior Imperial fleet with Greek fire off the Anatolian shore. According to the Slavonic chronicles, the Russian fleet was destroyed by a tempest.