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