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Kiev’s importance to Russian society can be best illustrated by

the arts and architecture borrowed from the Byzantines.
the Russian alphabet based on the Greek alphabet.
the literature translated from the Greek language.
the role of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

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the role of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Kiev’s conversion to Byzantine Christianity (under Prince Vladimir in 988) made it the religious and cultural center that transmitted Byzantine religion, law, art, literacy (Cyrillic liturgy), and political models to the Russian lands—shaping Russian society far more broadly than any single artistic or literary import.