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Olga was not the first person from Rus' to convert from her pagan ways—there were Christians in Igor's court who had taken oaths at the St. Elias Church in Kiev for the Rus'–Byzantine Treaty in 945—but she was the most powerful Rus' individual to undergo baptism during her life.
There are very few women mentioned by their full personal (Christian) names in the PVL, including: Princess Olga of Kiev, abbess Ianka or Anna Vsevolodovna of Kiev, her sister Eupraxia Vsevolodovna of Kiev (alias Holy Roman Empress Adelheid), Predslava Volodimerovna, Predslava Sviatopolkovna of Kiev, and Catherine (Katerina) Vsevolodovna (died ...
After the Battle of Kiev in 1036, the Pechenegs stopped raiding Rus' 941 Rus'–Byzantine War (941) Kievan Rus' Byzantine Empire: Defeat 944/945 Rus'-Byzantine War (944/945) Kievan Rus' Byzantine Empire: Victory. [10] The historicity of this conflict is questioned. [e] 945–947 Olga's Revenge on the Drevlians [uk; ru] Kievan Rus' Olga of Kiev ...
In 883, Prince Oleg of Novgorod made the Drevlians pay tribute to Kiev. In 907, the Drevlians took part in the Kievan military campaign against the Eastern Roman Empire. Olga's revenge for the assassination of her husband. After Oleg's death in 912 the Drevlians stopped paying tribute. The Varangian warlord Sveneld made them pay tribute to himself.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Olga (Ukrainian: ... was a Grand Princess of the Kiev by marriage to Vladimir the Great, Grand Prince of ...
Olga (Ukrainian: Ольга, romanized: Ol'ha) is a two-act ballet by Ukrainian composer Yevhen Stankovych and librettist Yuriy Ilyenko based on the life of Olga of Kiev, which was written in 1981 to commemorate the 1500th anniversary of the city of Kyiv.
The Grand Prince of Kiev (sometimes grand duke) was the title of the monarch of Kievan Rus', residing in Kiev (modern Kyiv) from the 10th to 13th centuries. [citation needed] In the 13th century, Kiev became an appanage principality first of the grand prince of Vladimir and the Mongol Golden Horde governors, and later was taken over by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Olga (centre front) with her father, Alexander III, 1888. Back row (left to right), her siblings and mother: Grand Duke Michael, Empress Marie, Grand Duke Nicholas (later Nicholas II), Grand Duchess Xenia and Grand Duke George. Olga was the youngest daughter of Emperor Alexander III and his consort, Empress Marie, formerly Princess Dagmar of ...