Drevlians
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The Drevlians, Derevlians or Derevlianians were a tribe of East Slavs between the 6th and the 10th centuries, which inhabited the territories of Polesia and right-bank Ukraine, west of the eastern Pol
European territory inhabited by East Slavic tribes in 8th and 9th centuries
Igor of Kiev Exacting Tribute from the Drevlians, by Klavdiy Lebedev (1852–1916)
Olga's revenge for the assassination of her husband
Olga of Kiev
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Olga was a regent of Kievan Rus' for her son Sviatoslav from 945 until 957. Following her baptism, Olga took the name Elenа. She is known for her subjugation of the Drevlians, a tribe that had killed
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…tribute to himself. Oleg's successor Igor attempted to levy the tribute after Sveneld, but the Drevlians revolted and killed him in 945. Igor's widow Olga avenged her husband's death in an extremely harsh manner, killing Drevlian ambassadors and nobility, burning their capital of Iskorosten to the ground…
Saint Olga by Mikhail Nesterov (1892)
The first meeting of Prince Igor with Olga, painting by Vasily Sazonov (1824)
Princess Olga meets the body of her husband. A sketch by Vasily Surikov.
Romanov Imperial icon created in 1895 of Saint Olga. Silver, gold, color enamel, tempera. Collection V.Logvinenko