Oleg is briefly biography

Prophetic Oleg is a biography of prophetic Oleg - the legendary Russian governor, Prince of Novgorod, and then Prince Kiev. The prophetic Oleg can be safely called the great son of the Russian land, he was a pagan, but at the same time a great warrior and priest. He became above his religiosity in order to develop culture and education for the future peoples of Russia, which has already become inevitable after the people gained Slavic writing and Russian alphabet.

His image of the prince-warrior, the defender of the Russian land and the creator of the Russian state has become part of the self-identification of the Russian people over the course of all its subsequent centuries of history.

The origin of Oleg needs to understand that there are several historically proven facts about life and the birth of the prophetic Oleg, which of the versions is certainly unable to say. The story of his birth and life over time enveloped in legends and secrets. Scientists can operate only with information that draw from the few preserved scriptures. There are two versions about the origin of Oleg, it is traditional to be considered which is written in the Stories of Bygone Years, but there is a bibliography of the Novgorod first annals.

It describes fragments of an earlier annalistic vault than telling in the "Tale of Bygone Years." Prince Oleg Prophesh, if you accept the version of the “Tale of Bygone Years”, Oleg was a tribe of Rurik, it is believed that he could be a brother -in -law of the brother of Rurik’s wife, who was called Efand, or that he was a governor under the ruler. There are semi -mythical Scandinavian sagas telling about the Odda Orvar, a widely known prince in Scandinavia.

But most scientists do not support the Scandinavian version of Oleg's origin. The reign when Prince Rurik was already on the estimate, he appoints Oleg a regent with his young son Igor. The prince was sure that he was transferring power to a skilled and wise warrior. And he was right. The enterprise and cunning of Oleg could only be surprised. He began his rule with an adventure, which, however, ended very successfully.

It is reliably known that at the time of Oleg’s power, as such, Novgorod did not exist yet, but there were three villages surrounded by the city fortress, which was built in the 9th century. It was the fortress in those days that they called the "city." So both Rurik and Oleg were sitting not in Novgorod, but in Stargorod. Nearby was Ladoga’s trading city by the standards, but by the years its significance decreased significantly, due to numerous wars and exorbitant taxes.

Oleg managed to unite ancient Rus'. He was the first to be repulsed by the Khazar Kaganate, to which the cities paid tribute for more than a century. He is the first who started cooperation with the Greeks. In the year, Prince Oleg captures Kyiv with cunning, he knew that it would not be easy for a force to take this city, there were experienced leaders, and their squad was brave, experienced.

He had to apply a trick, he left his army behind, and he sailed to Kyiv with several boats, stopped near the city and sent to Askold and Dir that their countrymen, the merchants of Varangian, go to Greece, want to see them and ask them to come to the boats. And when they came to kill them. At the entrance to the city, he pronounced words that were forever preserved in history that Kyiv be the mother of Russian cities.

And it really became so. The murder of Oleg Askold and Dira was very pleased with how successfully the place for the construction of the city was chosen. The gentle shores of the Dnieper, were practically impermissible, which allowed us to hope that the city would be a reliable protection for its inhabitants. The presence of a barrier from the side of the city’s water boundary was very relevant, since it was precisely this part of the Dnieper that the famous trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks passed.

A few years later, Oleg decides to expand the territories and subjugate the tribes living on them. Krivichi, Ilmena and Finno-Ugric tribes obeyed him, including miracles and weights. And he conquered the cities of Smolensk and Lyubich. Then the Ugric tribes, which were previously replaced by the Polovtsy, were attached to Kyiv. Not far from Kyiv, a place that is still called Ugorsky has been preserved.

The newly captured lands were appointed governors of the prince. But annually Oleg himself traveled to the possessions. This has become a kind of collection of taxes, a pole. Oleg also performed and justice decided the disagreements that arose. And then there was a war with the Khazars, he was able to free the eastern lands from the invaders, who robbed Russian lands for two centuries.

In the year, the Hungarian troops came close to the borders, but the prince Oleg managed to peacefully agree on good neighborliness. Special mention deserves Oleg's campaign on Constantinople. The legend says that the prince equipped the army in a rooks, 40 soldiers in each and was preparing for sailing. The Byzantine Emperor Leo VI philosopher was frightened by a large army and ordered to close the gates of the city, leaving the suburbs of Tsargrad to ruin.

But here Oleg showed cunning, he ordered the ships to adjust the wheels, and under the raised sails he went to the city.Actually, after that, frightened Greeks proposed concluding a peace agreement and paying tribute to 12 hryvnias for each warrior, and in a sign of Victory Oleg hung his shield on the gates of Tsargrad. Also, merchants received the right to trade duty free in Byzantium.

But the mention of this event can only be found in the medieval scriptures of Rus'. In the Byzantine letters there is no mention of this event, although their Byzantine chroniclers have always very colorfully described all the events, including the sieges of Byzantine cities. Historians call into question the campaign itself and the peace treaty from the year, which, according to researchers, is the compilation of similar agreements from the GO when Oleg sent the embassy in order to confirm the world.

It was after this campaign that Oleg received the nickname "Prophet". According to legend, the rulers of Constantinople went beyond the walls of the city to agree and the world and offered Oleg the treats, but the prince suggested that food could be poisoned and refused to accept dishes. According to some documents, there is information that Oleg spoke against the Persians, but the described events have no specifics.

It was not possible to restore the chronology for sure, there are only separate descriptions of the episodes. Oleg’s campaign on Constantinople Arab scientist al-Masudi wrote that in the year the ruler of Rus, whom he did not call by name, went from the Black Sea to the Azovskoye through the Kerch Strait. Then he mentioned a person who, by the similarity of names, could be compared with Oleg.

They may be familiar.