Olga of Kiev
Princess of Kiev, Orthodox saint (c. 890-925) · Historical Figures · Lived 890 to 969 · aged 79
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Something wrong?A tenth-century regent who answered her husband's murder with methodical vengeance against an entire tribe, then decades later became the first baptized ruler of Kievan Rus' - and a saint.
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St Olga by Nesterov in 1892
1075 years since the reign of Princess Olga 20 hryvnia silver coin obverse
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Olga assumed power in 945 after the Drevlians killed her husband Igor, and her response was systematic: she subjugated the tribe that had taken him. For twelve years she ruled as regent for her son Sviatoslav, holding the throne until 957. Somewhere in that span she accepted baptism and took the name Elena, making her the first Kievan ruler to convert - though it would be her grandson Vladimir, not her son, who eventually imposed Christianity as the state religion. She died on 11 July 969. The Eastern Orthodox Church canonized her with the rare title "Equal to the Apostles," and her feast day remains the date of her death.
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