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1. The Old Rus’-Ukrainian State maintained active con tacts with Byzantium,

the German Empire, Poland, Hungary, France and Scandinavian

states. Interna tional ties became especially extensive under the rule of the

son of Volodymyr Svyatoslavovych Prince Yaroslav (1019–1054), who was

called by his de scendants Yaroslav the Wise. He actively used a method of

diplomacy widespread in the medieval times – dynastic marriages. Yaroslav’s

son, Vsevolod, married the daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Constantine

IX Monomakh. One of Yaroslav’s daugh ters, Anna, was given in

marriage to the French King Henry I. Another daughter, Yelyzaveta, became

wife of the Norwegian King Harold the Severe, and the third one Ananstasia

– of the Hungarian King Andrash I. Friendly relations with Poland were

strengthened by the marriage of Yaroslav’s sister Dobroniha with Kazimir,

Prince of Krakow.