Hell hath no fury like a woman whose husband got ripped in half by birch trees. Here we tell the story of Olga of Kiev.

Saint of the Day – 11 July – Saint Olga Queen of Kiev (c 890-969) Queen of the Ukraine – born c 890 at Pskov, Russia and died on 11 July 969 in Kiev, Ukraine of natural causes. …

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Mikhail Nesterov, Sfanta Olga

Saint Olga by Milhail Nesterov — Oil on canvas, (1892-1893)

God wants us to love our enemies. He doesn’t want us to pretend that we don’t have enemies.

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...