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In the year 957, Olga of Kiev traveled to Constantinople to meet with the Byzantine Emperor.

Olga was the region leader of Kievan Rus, a federation of East Slavic tribes.

Kievan Rus spread from the white sea in the north all the way down to the black sea

in the south, and its people would eventually go on to form Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.

Olga had been married to the grand prince of Kiev, Igor, and the two had a young son,

Sviadoslav, but Igor had been murdered while on tour to collect tributes from his tribes.

And Sviadoslav was just in his early teens in 957, and so until he came of age officially,

it was Olga who acted as a region, as she was on this diplomatic mission to Constantinople.

Olga and the people of Kievan Rus were pagan, but Constantin VII, the Byzantine Emperor,

was a Christian.

He was also smitten with the attractive, sophisticated, self-assured widow Olga, and he made his feelings

clear when he sideled up next to her and said, a fine woman like you would make a marvelous

impress.

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