Emperor Konstantin Bagryanorodny personally described Princess Olga in Constantinople. The chronicle of the German emperor Otto I knows her as a queen. It is canonized as equal apostal by the Russian Orthodox Church. Olga remained in memory not only by revenge for her husband, the arrangement of the state and the appeal to Christianity. Understanding the historical role of the princess depends on the context, still elusive of historians. Who is she, Holy Blessed Princess Olga? How do we know about her and the deeds of the first Russian princes? How reliable is this knowledge? How do information about the Grand Duchess differ from the legends about its predecessors? What is the back of the myth of the Varangians-Rusy? For all these questions – for the first time with complete frankness – the book of the Doctor of Historical Sciences Andrei Bogdanov answers.
Everyone who reads at least a school textbook is known about the activities of Olga. Rather, they think that they know: the most famous is known. All Russian and foreign sources are introduced into scientific circulation about it and quoted …
Author
Bogdanov Andrey Petrovich
Editor
Zalesskaya M.K.
Publisher
Veche, 2013
Series
Man-mystery
16+
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