His mother Olga renamed herself after Helena Lekapena when she converted to Christianity, but he himself remained a pagan.
Wikipedia claims this ruler's letter to the Vyatichi consisting of  the phrase "I want to come at you!" has entered mainstream culture. His mother Olga renamed herself after Helena Lekapena when she converted to Christianity, but he himself remained a pagan. John Tzimiskes thwarted this ruler's plan to move the capital to a location on the Black Sea which he considered a confluence of goods, Pereyaslavets, by besieging this husband of Malusha in Dorostolon. This (*) Rurikid sacked the Bulgarian capital Preslav and the Khazar fortress of Sarkel, and constantly campaigned against peoples such as the Alans and Pechenegs, whose ruler Kurya made his skull into a cup. For 10 points, name this early ruler of Kiev, whose son Vladimir christianized Rus.
Wikipedia claims this ruler's letter to the Vyatichi consisting of  the phrase "I want to come at you!
Sviatoslav I of Kiev(an Rus) (or Sviatoslav the Brave)