Olga of Kyiv
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When Viking princess Olga of Kyiv’s husband was brutally murdered, she embarked on an epic vengeance spree.
Sources:
Clements, Barbara Evans. A History of Women in Russia: From Earliest Times to the Present. (Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2012).
The History of Leo the Deacon. Byzantine Military Expansion in the Tenth Century, translated and annotated by Alice-Mary Talbot and Denis F. Sullivan, Dumbarton Oaks Studies XLI (Washington, D.C.: 2005)
Morris, Deianira. “Olga of Kiev: Pious Saint or Murderous Queen?” The Collector. 19 February, 2022. https://worldhistoryconnected.press.uillinois.edu/7.1/sherman.html
The Russian Primary Chronicle: Laurentian Text, ed. and trans. Samuel Hazzard Cross and Olgerd P. Sherbowitz-Wetzor (Cambridge, MA, 1953).
Sherman, Heidi. “Grand Princess Olga: Pagan Vengeance and Sainthood in Kievan Rus.” World History Connected. https://worldhistoryconnected.press.uillinois.edu/7.1/sherman.html
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