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Saint
Olga of Kiev
Saint Olga by Mikhail Nesterov
Equal to the Apostles, Blessed Princess
Born
c. 890–925 Pleskov or Vybuty [ru], Kievan Rus'
Residence
Kiev, Kievan Rus'
Died
11 July 969 Kiev, Kievan Rus'
Venerated in
Eastern Orthodoxy Roman Catholicism
Canonized
Unknown, possibly 1284.[1]
Major shrine
Church of the Tithes
Feast
11 July
Attributes
cross and church
Patronage
Widows, converts
Princess of Kiev
Reign
945–960
Predecessor
Igor of Kiev
Successor
Sviatoslav the Brave
Spouse
Igor of Kiev
Issue
Sviatoslav the Brave
Dynasty
Rurik
Religion
Chalcedonian Christianity prev. Slavic pagan
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. Even though it was her grandson Vladimir who adopted Christianity and made it the state religion,[6] she was the first ruler to be baptized.[7][8]
Olga is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church with the epithet "Equal to the Apostles". Her feast day is 11 July.[9]
^Boris Gaparov (July 10, 2018). Christianity and the Eastern Slavs, Volume I: Slavic Cultures in the Middle Ages. University of California Press. pp. 77–81.
^Клосс, Борис (15 May 2022). Полное собрание русских летописей. Том 1. Лаврентьевская летопись (in Russian). Litres. pp. 55–60. ISBN 978-5-04-107383-1.
^Winroth, Anders (2016). The Age of the Vikings. Princeton University Press. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-691-16929-3.
^Войтович, Леонтій Вікторович (1992). Генеалогія Рюриковичів і Гедиміновичів. Avtor. p. 16. ISBN 5-7702-0506-7.
^Primary Chronicle 82.
^Feldbrugge, Ferdinand J. M. (2017). A History of Russian Law: From Ancient Times to the Council Code (Ulozhenie) of Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich of 1649. Brill. p. 340. ISBN 978-90-04-35214-8.
^Gasparov, Boris; Raevsky-Hughes, Olga (2021). California Slavic Studies. Vol. XVI: Slavic Culture in the Middle Ages. Univ of California Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-520-30918-0.
^Franklin, Simon; Shepard, Jonathan (2014). The Emergence of Russia 750–1200. Routledge. p. 137. ISBN 978-1-317-87224-5.
^"Святая княгиня Ольга". Русская вера (in Russian). Retrieved 2019-08-08.
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