Princess Olga. The Flaming Myth
17 hrs. 22 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Elizaveta Dvoretskaya
Author
Elizaveta Dvoretskaya
Narrator
Alexander Vorobyov
Narrator
Alexander Vorobyov
Description
The image of Princess Olga is shrouded in many mysteries. Was it true that she came from an ordinary family and met the prince by chance? Did she really become his wife as a ten-year-old girl, yet give birth to her only son only forty years later—and fifteen more years after that, captivate the Byzantine emperor with her beauty? Was her husband a feeble old man—or did the nickname “Old Igor” arise for some other reason? And most importantly: how did it happen that a woman renowned for brutal reprisals and mass executions was ultimately canonized as a saint?
Elizaveta Dvoretskaya, who devoted nearly three decades to the study of the early Russian Middle Ages, conducted an unusual and painstaking investigation. She traces literary and folkloric echoes of the stories from which the “Olga myth” was formed, compares them with the realities of the time, and draws on modern historical and archaeological evidence that remains little known to the general reader.
Elizaveta Dvoretskaya, who devoted nearly three decades to the study of the early Russian Middle Ages, conducted an unusual and painstaking investigation. She traces literary and folkloric echoes of the stories from which the “Olga myth” was formed, compares them with the realities of the time, and draws on modern historical and archaeological evidence that remains little known to the general reader.
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