Biography to Princess Olga

Olga Pskovskaya Olga Mudra. Figure V. Olga Olga Pskov mind. According to legendary information, it came from ordinary people. She was taken to his wife Igor and became the mother of Svyatoslav Igorevich. In, after the murder of Prince Igor by the Drevlyans, she brutally avenged the rebels. She was the ruler of the state under the young Svyatoslav and during his endless campaigns.

Olga Pskovskaya set the dimensions of tribute from subjects and arranged parking lots of administrative centers. I visited Constantinople, where I was baptized, having received the Christian name Elena. Canonized Rus. Materials of Prince. Figures of Russian history. Biographical reference. Moscow, G. Olga Mudraya? Igor Rurikovich. Tatishchev, came from the Gostomyslov clan. After the murder of her husband, by the Drevlyans, according to the chronicle legend, she took the control of the state as a regent with a young son Svyatoslav.

In the same year, the war with the Drevlyans, which lasted approx. In more difficulty, they achieved their surrender, and the result of which Drevlyansk was preserved. Then she made a trip to NovG. After that, Olga visited Constantinople, where she was accepted twice. Konstantin Bagryanorodny and where, apparently, Orthodox was accepted. I tried to spread Christianity unsuccessfully, but the missionaries invited from Germany were expelled from Rus'!

Olga significantly expanded the land possessions of Kyiv. B or visited Constantinople with the Embassy, ​​where she was binding Christianity. She continued to manage the state and after the mature of her son, who was all the time on campaigns. In his absence, she led the protection of Kyiv from the Pechenegs. At the end of her life, Christianity professed “Secret, since her son Svyatoslav was hostile to him.

Materials from Prince were used. Rus Rurikovich. Illustrated historical dictionary, M. Olga Christian name - Elena Um. After the uprising of the Drevlyans and the murder of her husband, Olga destroyed the members of the two embassies of the Drevlyans, who arrived to marry Prince Mal, and then ordered to kill about 5 thousand Drevlyans and burned the city of Iskorosten, near which Igor died.

Olga Rules the Kyiv state during the infancy of Svyatoslav and to a large extent and after, since Svyatoslav spent almost his whole life on campaigns. The establishment of the size of tribute in ancient Rus' and the arrangement of grades in ancient Russia. In order to strengthen trade and political relations with Byzantium, Olga went to Constantinople according to Russian sources - in the year, according to Byzantine - in the year.

On the eve of the trip or in Constantinople, she adopted Christianity. But dissatisfied with the reception provided to her in Byzantium, Olga, after returning to Kyiv, refused the Byzantine emperor in the promised military assistance. Olga exchanged embassies with the German emperor Otto I. In the year, being together with three grandchildren in the besieged by the Pechenegs, Olga called her son from Bulgaria to help.

She persuaded Svyatoslav not to perform over her after the death of a pagan trice. Canonized by the Russian Church. Soviet historical encyclopedia. In 16 volumes. Tom Literature: Solovyov S. Olga - Holy Equal -to -the -Apostles Princess, wife of the Grand Duke of Kyiv Igor, the mother of the Grand Duke Svyatoslav Igorevich and the grandmother of the Holy Equal -to -the -Apostles Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavich, who adopted Christianity one of the first in Rus'.

It was born near G. G. strengthened the foundations of statehood in Rus', centralized the administration and weakened the influence of local princes in political life by the introduction of a churchyard system-financial-administrative, judicial and shopping centers in tribal lands. She took care of the strengthening of the defense power of Kievan Rus, with stone and oak walls surpassed the residence of the Kyiv princes - Vyshgorod, making it a powerful Kremlin.

Since the reign of Princess Olga in Kyiv, stone construction began. In Olga, for the first time visited the capital of the Byzantine Empire and was honored in the imperial palace, but in general, this official visit was not too successful and caused the princess some irritation. Near gg. Olga repeatedly visited Constantinople with a diplomatic mission in order to develop trade and political ties of Rus' with the Byzantine Empire.

During this embassy, ​​she adopted Christianity, was baptized by the Patriarch of Constantinople Theophylact and received the name Elena. Her godfather became Emperor Konstantin VII Bagryanorod, and she herself received the right to be called the "daughter of the emperor." Then a new agreement was concluded between Russia and Byzantium, under the terms of which Constantinople received significant military assistance from Kyiv to fight the Arabs.

Olga brought to Rus' the Holy Cross, cut out of the whole piece of the life -giving tree of the Lord, for a long time the former main shrine of Russian Orthodoxy. In the XIV century. The Holy Cross was abducted by Polish Catholics, taken to Lublin and his further fate is unknown. In addition, Olga erected several Christian churches in Kyiv, Vitebsk and Pskov, including the first Kiev temple of St.

Sophia, consecrated on May 11Christian Olga failed to influence his son, Prince Svyatoslav, who until his death remained a pagan. Olga moved away from business in the city of Byzantine Dictionary: in 2 vols. Princess Olga, wife of Prince Igor.

But even later, when he grew up, he was only interested in military campaigns, and the management of Russian lands was still in the hands of Princess Olga until her death. Over many years of reign, Olga deserved the title of wisest of people. One of the first in Rus' she adopted Christianity. Olga was baptized in Constantinople in or year. Undoubtedly, later this influenced the choice of her grandson, Prince Vladimir, who accepted the eastern branch of Christianity Orthodoxy for the entire Russian people.

The beginning of the reign of Olga is overshadowed by barbaric, truly medieval acts of revenge Drevlyans for the death of her husband. At first she ordered to bury the Zaplyansk ambassadors alive in the ground, who came to match her for her prince. And two of them burned in the bath. Then, with the help of a devilish cunning, she burned the capital of the Drevlyans, the city of Iskosten.

I must say that her own squad has fully approved these actions. One of the main acts of Princess Olga is the establishment of the first tax collection system in Rus'. It introduced charters and lessons, that is, constant taxes. Soloviev believes that traces of this economic activity are visible in all the then Russian lands, and not just the Drevlyansky and Novgorod, as the annals reads.

Princess Olga died in a year in a very old age. The Orthodox Russian Church ranked it on the face of the saints and called it equal apostles, that is, equal to the apostles, the companions of Jesus Christ himself. The memory of the holy Equal -to -the -Apostles Princess Olga is celebrated on July 11. All Russian girls Olga are named after her. Wife led. Regarding the origin of Prince.

Olga exists several annals. Some authors call her a native of Pleskov Pskov, others - Izborsk. Some say that she came from the genus of the legendary Gostomysl and originally bore the name of the termination, but was renamed Oleg prophetic in her honor, others call her the daughter of Oleg prophet, others report that she was a simple peasant woman who liked Igor and therefore who became his wife.

In the manuscript collection of the XV century. The Ustyuzh annals say that she became Igor’s wife at the summer. The Joachimovsky Chronicle notes that Igor later had other wives, but Olga honored more than others for her wisdom. From Igor’s agreement with Byzantium it is clear that Olga occupied the third most important place in the hierarchical structure of the Kyiv state - after the Great Prince.

Igor and his son-priority Svyatoslav. However, the latest research of scientists, based on foreign sources, show that this event occurred much earlier - in the board of the Byzantine imp. Roman I, who was overthrown by his sons in December after the death of her husband, Olga becomes the supreme ruler of Rus'. It brutally suppresses the uprising of the Drevlyans, establishes the size of taxes from the population in a number of Russian regions, creates graveyards where Dani's collectors stop.