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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
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