Ibn Fadlan's embassy to the Volga Bulgars
921–922 · Event
An Abbasid envoy travels from Baghdad to the Volga and writes the only eyewitness account of the Rus, including a chieftain's ship cremation and slave-girl sacrifice.
On these timelines: The Viking Age, The Islamic Golden Age, Russia & the USSR, Master
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