Regent Saint Olga KIEV

   Other names for Saint were Olega, KIEV Regent and OLGA Saint.

   Ancestral File Number: B6DP-12. User ID: 2420447849.

   General Notes:

Regent of KIEV 945-962, Saint OLGA Feast Day July 11.

BOOKS
Barber Grandparents: 125 Kings, 143 Generations, Ted Butler Bernard and Gertrude Barber Bernard, 1978, McKinney TX, p80: "321R Igor, Czar of Russia, (S of 309, F of 334); led an expedition against Constantinople which failed, and then another which was successful; he established a favorable commercial treaty with Constantinople on his second expedition, but was killed on his return to Russia by Drevelin Tribes; married Olga who assumed regency following his death; she was the first Russian leader to be baptized into the Christian Faith, but failed to establish it among the Russians; she was later canonized as a Saint and known as St. Olga."

Wall Chart of World History, Edward Hull, 1988, Studio Editions, Russia, 900: "Olega, Regent of Kiev 900-935..."

The New Columbia Encyclopedia, 1975, p1312, Igor: "...His wife, St Olga, served as regent for their son Sviatoslav after Igor's death (945)."
p2663, Sviatoslav: "...son of Igor and St Loga. His mother acted as regent for him until Abt 962, when he came of age..."

Encyclopaedia Britannica 1981 Micropaedia Vol VII p518 Olga Saint: "Born Abt 890, Died 969 Kiev Ukranian SSR, princess who was canonized as the first Russian saint of the Orthodox Church. She was the widow of Prince Igor I, who was assassinated (945) byhis subjects while attempting to extort excessive tribute for his expeditions against Byzantium. Because Igor's son Svyztoslav was still a minor, Olga became regent of the grand principality of Kiev from 945 to 964. She soon had Igor's murderers scalded to death and hundreds of their followers killed. Olga became the first of the royal Kievans to adopt Orthodox Christianity. She was probably baptized (Abt 957), at Constantinople, then the most powerful patriarchate. Her efforts to bring Christianity to Russia were carried out by her grandson, the Grand Prince St Vladimir (died 1015); together they mark the transition between pagan and Christian Russia. Olga's feast day is July 11."

Macropaedia, Vol III, p561, Byzantine Empire: "...In 957 Igor's widow Olga was baptized and paid a state visit to Constantinople during the reign of Constantine VII; her influence enabled Byzantine missionaries to work with greater security in Russia, thus spreading Christianity andByzantine culture..."

The Story of Civilization, Will Durant, Vol IV, The Age of Faith, Bk IV, The Dark Ages, Ch XVIII, The Byzantine World, Sec VII, The Birth of Russia, p448: "Oleg, Igor and the able Princess Olga (Igor's widow), and her warrior son son Sviatoslav (962-972) widened the Kievan realm until it embraced nearly all the eastern Slavonic tribes, and the towns of Polotsk, Smolensk, Chernigov, and Rostov."

ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File Ver 4.10 B6DP-12 Olga Grand Duchess of KIEV Born Abt 920 Pskov Pskov Russia Mar 903 Pskov Pskov Russian Died 11 Jul 969 Kiev Kiev Ukraine.

IGI Marriage T990002-82-1126128NONE Igor Grand Duke of KIEV Spouse Olga P Grand Duchess of KIEV 903Peskovatka Russia USSR.

IGI Birth T990001-259-1126128NONE Svyatoslav Grand Duke of KIEV Father Igor Grand Duke of KIEV Mother Olga Grand Duchess of KIEV 942 Kiyev Ukraine USSR.

   Marriage Information:

Saint married Grand Duke Igor KIEV, son of Grand Duke Rurik Varangian Kiev NOVGOROD and Grand Duchess Efenda Kiev NOVGOROD, in 903 in Peskovatka, Pskov, Russia. (Grand Duke Igor KIEV was born in 877 in Novgorod, Volynsky, Ukraine, Russia and died in 945 in Kiev, Kiev, Ukraine.)