Abt 890 - 969 (~ 79 years)
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| Name |
Olga of Kiev |
| Prefix |
St. |
| Birth |
Abt 890 |
Pskov, Russia  [1] |
| Gender |
Female |
| Death |
11 Jul 969 |
Kiev, Ukraine [1] |
| Person ID |
I1598 |
Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others |
| Last Modified |
22 Nov 2020 |
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| Notes |
- "Her name Ol'ga derives from Old Scandinavian Helga, and she is called Helga in Byzantine sources. Her christening name was Helen. She was the first of the princely family to accept Christianity and much later she was made a saint as 'precursor' of the faith in Rus. As the widow of Igor, she served as regent during the minority of her son Svyatoslav. Her official visit to Constantinople circa 955 is related in the Primary Chronicle and also by the Emperor Constantine, the differences between the two sources illustrating nicely the folk character of the early Rus annals. In her, the chronicle dramatizes the change from paganism to Christianity: a treacherous and vengeful Olga becomes Olga the saint, through still a trickster." ["Ryurik and the First Ryurikids", citation details below.]
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