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    Following the death of his father Igor in 945, Sviatoslav's mother Olga reigned as regent in Kiev until 962. His decade-long reign over the Kievan Rus' was marked...
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    [citation needed] Reduced to extremes, Sviatoslav's mother Olga of Kiev (who was in Kiev together with all of Sviatoslav's sons) contemplated surrender...
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  • form is Oleg (Олeг). Saint Olga of Kiev (890–969), a Varangian noblewoman, regent of Kievan Rus' and wife of Igor of Kiev Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1822–1892)...
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    Yelagin Palace. In February 1916, Xenia travelled to Kiev after an illness to see her mother and sister Olga. Her sister finally had her shell of a first marriage...
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    authenticity also connects his childhood with the name of his grandmother, Olga of Kiev, who was Christian and governed the capital during Sviatoslav's frequent...
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    princesses such as Askold and Dir and Olga of Kiev reportedly converted to Christianity, but Oleg the Wise, Igor of Kiev and Sviatoslav I remained pagans....
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    Clement I Anna of Byzantium Vladimir the Great Olga of Kiev, reburied from Vyshhorod Yaropolk I of Kiev Oleg of the Drevlyans The remnants of Anna of Byzantium...
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  • Berdychiv in 1912, he moved to Kiev in 1914 where, while living with his father, he attended secondary school and later the Kiev Higher Institute of Soviet...
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    identifies Askold's burial mound with Uhorska Hora (Hungarian hill), where Olga of Kiev later built two churches, devoted to Saint Nicholas and to Saint Irene...
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    better Motherdear stays … at Kiev, where the climate is better and she can live as she wishes and hears less gossip". In Kiev, Maria engaged in the Red Cross...
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