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Olga of Kiev. Olga ( Church Slavonic: Ольга; [2] [a] Old Norse: Helga; [3] c. 890–925 – 11 July 969) [4] was a regent of Kievan Rus' for her son Sviatoslav from 945 until 960. Following her baptism, Olga took the name Elenа. [b] She is known for her subjugation of the Drevlians, a tribe that had killed her husband Igor.
Mar 29, 2024 · St. Olga (born c. 890—died 969, Kyiv; feast day July 11) was the princess who was the first recorded female ruler of the Rus and the first member of the ruling family of Kyivan Rus to adopt Christianity. She was canonized as the first Kyivan saint of the Orthodox Church and is the patron saint of widows and converts.
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Apr 15, 2022 · Saint Olga of Kiev was a Viking royal who became the regent of Kievan Rus in 945 C.E. — and took epic revenge against the tribe that killed her husband. After Olga of Kyiv's enemies killed her husband, she devised punishment after punishment to avenge his murder.
Nov 11, 2019 · Jone Johnson Lewis. Updated on November 11, 2019. Princess Olga of Kiev, also known as St. Olga, is sometimes credited as founding, with her grandson Vladimir, what has come to be known as Russian Christianity (the Moscow Patriarchate within Eastern Orthodoxy).
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Olga ( Church Slavonic: Ольга; Old Norse: Helga; c. 890–925 – 11 July 969) was a regent of Kievan Rus' for her son Sviatoslav from 945 until 960. Following her baptism, Olga took the name Elenа. She is known for her subjugation of the Drevlians, a tribe that had killed her husband Igor.
Heidi Sherman. The Baptism of Grand Princess St Olga (Sergei Kirillov, 1992) (Painting One of the triptych Holy Rus) It is a strange historical twist that the first "Russian" woman to be canonized in the Orthodox Church was a Viking warrior princess who spent much of her life as a pagan.
Earliest female ruler of Russia who became the first Russian canonized by the Orthodox Christian Church. Name variations: Saint Olga, Ol'ga, or Olha; Helga (Scandinavian); Helen or Helena (baptismal name); Vesheii (wise). Born to a Slavic family around 890 in Pskov, Russia; died in Kiev, Russia, in 969; traditionally believed to be the daughter ...
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