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Olga of Kiev, who is better known as Saint Olga (d. 969) of the Kievan Rus. After her husband, Igor of Kiev (r. 912-945) is killed by the Drevlian tribe (a tribe of Early East Slavs), Olga seeks bloody vengeance and achieves this, among others burning some of them alive directly and burning down the city of Iskorosten along with its inhabitants. Some parts of her life as recorded in the Russian Primary Chronicle are thought to be mythical or legendary.
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