1. Princess Olga& Vladimir 945-964
• Princess Olga governed Kiev until her grandson was old enough to rule.
• After Olga her grandson Vladimir came to the Russian throne
• He considered conversion to Christianity
• The Primary Chronicle reports that Vladimir sent out teams to observe the
major religious times
• Three of the teams returned with lukewarm accounts of Islam, Judaism,
and Western Christianity
• Byzantine Christians told quite another story which converted Vladimir to
Byzantine Christianity
• http://russiapedia.rt.com/prominent-russians/history-and-
mythology/princess-olga-of-kiev/
• http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/jek/07/15.html