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History Tea Time

2 Slavic Queens: Olga of Kyiv (Ukraine) & Jadwiga of Poland

History Tea Time

Lindsay Holiday

History

4.5566 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Olga was the wive of Igor, the Grand Prince of the Kievan Rus’, a federation of people whose capital was the city of Kyiv, now the capital of modern day Ukraine. When her husband was brutally murdered by a subsidiary tribe, Olga went on a legendary campaign of cunning and ruthless revenge. Once in control of her husband’s kingdom, she was an efficient and effective leader. She converted to Christianity in order to get out of an unwanted marriage proposal. She is credited with introducing Christianity to the Rus people. After her death, Olga was canonized as a saint and is regarded as “Equal to the Apostles” within the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. Jadwiga, Female King of Poland was crowned at the age of 10. She grew wise beyond her years and was forced to make a difficult decision about who to marry – a young man she liked or an old man who would Christianize his country for her. Though she reigned for only 15 years she did a great deal of good and is considered one of the greatest monarchs in Polish history. Join me every Tuesday when I'm Spilling the Tea on History! Check out my Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/lindsayholiday Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091781568503 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/historyteatimelindsayholiday/ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@historyteatime Please consider supporting me at https://www.patreon.com/LindsayHoliday and help me make more fascinating episodes! Intro Music: Baroque Coffee House by Doug Maxwell Music: Butterflies in Love by Sir Cubworth Angevin - Thatched Villagers by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) #womenshistory #HistoryTeaTime #LindsayHoliday Please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com if you would like to advertise on this podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello and welcome to History Tea Time.

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I'm Lindsay Holiday and I'm spilling the tea on history.

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Today it will be a double header of two strong and brave Slavic queens.

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Olga of Kiev, who was a grand princess of Kivian Rus in the

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900s and is today a saint of modern Ukraine, and Yadviga of Poland, a female king in the

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1300s. Like any neighbors, Ukraine and Poland have had close but often fraught relations. During the Middle

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Ages, the monarchies of Poland and the Ruthenian Kingdom had close ties and often intermarried.

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