Eastern europe's ancient elite

Tigranes the GreatEmperor of Armenia

(140 - 56 BC)

King Mirian of Georgia (265 - 342 AD)

Constantine the Great of ByzantiumRoman Emperor (272 - 337 AD)

Irene Empress of the Byzantine Empire

(797 - 802 AD)

Mieszko 1 King of Poland (940 - 992 AD)

Emperor Basil II of the Macedonian dynasty (958 - 1025 AD)

At his coronation as co-emperor in 960 He reigned in his own right from 976 - 1025

Ambassador from Kiev sent by Byzantine emperor, Vladimir the Great with a Byzantine Bishop in front of King Basil II from the Macedonian dynasty

(Circa 987 AD)

Boris IKing of Bulgaria(10th century)

Byzantine emperor, Nicephorus III(11th century)

Vladimir the GreatRussia

(11th century)

Alexios I KomnenosByzantine Emperor (1056 - 1118 AD)

Royal Scenery Medieval monastery of the Virgin Mary of Mavriotissa, Greece

Believed to have been built by Emperor Alexios I Komnenos in 1083

John II Komnenos and Sons Byzantine emperor and son of Alexios I

(1087 - 1143 AD)

Manuel I KomnenosByzantine Emperor, son of John II

(1118 - 1180 AD)

Tsar Ivan Assen Emperor of Bulgaria

(1218 - 1241 AD)

Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod, RussiaGrand Prince of Kiev and Vladimir

(1220 - 1263 AD)

Tsar Michael I AsenEmperor of Bulgaria

(1238/1241 - 1256 AD)

Tsar Theodore Svetoslav Emperor of Bulgaria (1270s - 1321 AD)

John VIIIPenultimate Emperor of Byzantine

(1392 - 1448 AD)

The Chronicum PictumAn illustrated chronicle from the Kingdom of Hungary from the 14th century

Stephen 1 captures Gyula (1044 AD)

The Chronicum PictumAn illustrated chronicle from the Kingdom of Hungary from the 14th century

Stephen 1 defeats Kean, duke of the Buglarians and Slavs

The Chronicum PictumAn illustrated chronicle from the Kingdom of Hungary from the 14th century

The Mongols in Hungary(1241 AD)

The Chronicum PictumAn illustrated chronicle from the Kingdom of Hungary from the 14th century

The Mongols in Hungary(1241 AD)

The Chronicum PictumAn illustrated chronicle from the Kingdom of Hungary from the 14th century

Ladislaus IV, King of Hungary (1262 – 1290 AD)

The Chronicum PictumAn illustrated chronicle from the Kingdom of Hungary from the 14th century

Believed to be Charles 1, first King of Hungary and Croatia (1288 – 1342 AD)

The Chronicum PictumAn illustrated chronicle from the Kingdom of Hungary from the 14th century

Louis 1, the Great, King of Hungary and Croatia (1326 – 1382 AD)

Constantine IXLast Emperor of Byzantine

(1404 - 1453 AD)

Saint Emperor Constantine the Great With Tsar Alexey Mikhaylovich and Patriarch of Moscow Nikon on the left and

Saint Empress Helena and Tsarina Maria Ilyinichna(1670s)

Michał Sokolnicki III(1760 - 1816 AD)

Polish nobleman, general, military engineer, politician, and writer