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Princess Olga. The Flaming Myth

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Princess Olga. The Flaming Myth
29.99 €
The figure of Princess Olga is shrouded in countless mysteries. Is it true that she was a simple girl who met a prince by chance? Is it true that she married at ten, gave birth to her only child only forty years later, and fifteen years later captivated the Byzantine emperor with her beauty? Was her husband truly an old man—or did he acquire the nickname Old Igor for another reason? And most importantly, how did such a cruel woman, who committed mass murder with particular cruelty, become a saint? Elizaveta Dvoretskaya, who has devoted nearly thirty years to studying the early Middle Ages in Rus', has accomplished a unique work, uncovering literary and folkloric parallels to the stories that make up the "Olga Myth," as well as comparing them to the context of the era, drawing on the latest historical and archaeological materials previously unknown to the general public.
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