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{{Infobox military conflict
| conflict = Siege of Constantinople by the Rus
| image = [[File:Greekfire-madridskylitzes1.jpg|center|300px]]
| caption = Greeks using their lethal fire, from the [[John Skylitzes|Madrid Skylitzes manuscript]].
| partof = [[Rus'–Byzantine War (disambiguation)|Rus'-Byzantine Wars]]
| date = 941–944<ref>Mauricio Borrero. Russia: A Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present. 2004. P. 389: "'''941–944''': Igor leads expedition on Constantinople".</ref><ref>James Stuart Olson, Lee Brigance Pappas, Nicholas Charles Pappas. An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994. P. 767: "'''944''': Igor ends his expedition against Constantinople".</ref>
| place = [[Constantinople]]<br />(modern-day [[Istanbul]], [[Turkey]])
| result = Indecisive{{refn|group=n|
|result= [[Rus'–Byzantine Treaty (945)]]<ref>Janet Martin. Treasure of the Land of Darkness: The Fur Trade and Its Significance for Medieval Russia. Cambridge University Press, 2004. P. 115-116</ref><ref>Alexander A. Vasiliev. History of the Byzantine Empire, 324–1453. University of Wisconsin Press. P. 322</ref>|▼
*The first campaign was unsuccessful, Igor's flotilla was defeated
combatant1=[[Byzantine Empire]]|▼
*The second campaign was a success, the Byzantines pay tribute and conclude a peace treaty<ref> Vilhelm Ludvig Peter Thomsen. The Relations Between Ancient Russia and Scandinavia, and the Origin of the Russian State. Cambridge University Press. 2010. P. 25</ref>
combatant2= [[Kievan Rus'|Rus']]|▼
commander1=[[Theophanes (chamberlain)|Theophanes]]<br>[[Bardas Phokas the Elder|Bardas Phokas]]<br>[[John Kourkouas]]|▼
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commander2= [[Igor I of Kiev]]|▼
|strength2= 1,000 ships, c. 40,000 men<ref group=n>Sources give varying figures for the size of the Rus fleet. The number 10,000 ships appears in the [[Primary Chronicle]] and in Greek sources, some of which put the figure as high as 15,000 ships. [[Liudprand of Cremona]] wrote that the fleet numbered only 1,000 ships; Liudprand's report is based on the account of his step-father who witnessed the attack while serving as envoy at Constantinople. Modern historians find the latter estimate to be the most credible. Runciman (1988), p. 111.</ref>▼
▲| commander1 = [[Theophanes (chamberlain)|Theophanes]]<br>[[Bardas Phokas the Elder|Bardas Phokas]]<br>[[John Kourkouas]]
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▲| commander2 = [[Igor I of Kiev]]|
| strength1 = 15 ships (initially){{sfn|Норвич|2023|p=326}}
▲| strength2 = 1,000 ships, c. 40,000 men<ref group=n>Sources give varying figures for the size of the Rus fleet. The number 10,000 ships appears in the [[Primary Chronicle]] and in Greek sources, some of which put the figure as high as 15,000 ships. [[Liudprand of Cremona]] wrote that the fleet numbered only 1,000 ships; Liudprand's report is based on the account of his step-father who witnessed the attack while serving as envoy at Constantinople. Modern historians find the latter estimate to be the most credible. Runciman (1988), p. 111.</ref>
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{{Campaignbox Russo-Byzantine Wars}}
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== The invasion ==
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[[File:Byzantines repel the Russian attack of 941.jpg|thumb|Byzantines repel the Russian attack of 941]]
The [[Rus' (people)|Rus']] and their allies, the [[Pechenegs]], disembarked on the northern coast of [[Asia Minor]] and swarmed over [[Bithynia]] in May 941. As usual, they seemed to have been well informed that the Imperial capital stood defenseless and vulnerable to attack: the [[Byzantine Navy|Byzantine fleet]] had been engaged against the Arabs in the [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]], while the bulk of the [[Byzantine army|Imperial army]] had been stationed along the eastern borders.
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== References ==
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*{{cite book |title=A History of the Vikings |last=Kendrick |first=Thomas D. |author-link=T. D. Kendrick |year=2004 |publisher=Courier Dover Publications |location=Mineola, NY |isbn=0-486-43396-X }}
*{{cite book |title=The Vikings in History |last=Logan |first=Donald F. |year=1992 |edition=2nd |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=0-415-08396-6 }}
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* {{Cite book | first = Steven | last = Runciman | author-link = Steven Runciman | title = The Emperor Romanus Lecapenus and His Reign: A Study of Tenth-Century Byzantium | publisher = Cambridge University Press | year = 1988 | isbn = 978-0-521-35722-7 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=XHVzWN6gqxQC}}
*{{cite book |title=The History of the Byzantine Empire |volume=2 |last=Uspensky |first=Fyodor |author-link=Fyodor Uspensky |year=1997 |publisher=Mysl |location=Moscow }}
*{{cite journal |last=Zuckerman |first=Constantine |author-link=Constantine Zuckerman |year=1995 |title=On the Date of the Khazar's Conversion to Judaism and the Chronology of the Kings of the Rus' Oleg and Igor |journal=Revue des Études Byzantines |volume=53 |pages=237–270 |doi=10.3406/rebyz.1995.1906 }}
* {{cite book |last=Норвич |first=Джон |title=История Византийской империи: От основания Константинополя до крушения государства | year = 2023 | ISBN = 978-5-389-19591-2}}
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