Princess Olga was the wife of Igor of Kiev, who was killed by the Drevlians.

Sviatoslav's father, Igor, was killed by the Drevlians around 945 and his mother, Olga, ruled as regent in Kiev until Sviatoslav's maturity ( ca.

The early part is rich in anecdotal stories, among which are the arrival of the three Varangian brothers, the founding of Kiev, the murder of Askold and Dir, the death of Oleg, who was killed by a serpent concealed in the skeleton of his horse, and the vengeance taken by Olga, the wife of Igor, on the Drevlians, who had murdered her husband.

The last mention of the Drevlians was in a chronicle of 1136, when their lands were given as a gift to the Church of the Tithes by Yaropolk Vladimirovich.

Legend holds that Zhytomyr was established about 884 by Zhytomyr, prince of a Slavic tribe of Drevlians.

" Another mention of the banya is found in the same Chronicle in the story of Princess Olga's revenge for the murder of her husband, Prince Igor, by the Slavic tribe of Drevlians in 945 AD.

After the Drevlians were drunk, Olga's soldiers killed over 5, 000 of them.

Igor was killed while collecting tribute from the Drevlians in 945 ( Leo the Deacon describes how Igor met his death: " They had bent down two birch trees to the prince ’ s feet and tied them to his legs ; then they let the trees straighten again, thus tearing the prince ’ s body apart.

" When the Drevlians arrived, Olga commanded that a bath should be made ready for them and said, ' Wash yourselves and come to me.

men closed the bath-house behind them and Olga gave orders to set it on fire from the doors, so that the Drevlians were all burned to death.

The Drevlians wanted Olga to marry their Prince Mal, making him the ruler of Kievan Rus, but Olga was determined to remain in power and preserve it for her son.

The Drevlians sent twenty of their best men to convince Olga to marry their Prince Mal and give up her rule of Kievan Rus.

In 907, the Drevlians took part in the Kievan military campaign against the Byzantine Empire.

After having subjugated the Drevlians, Olga transformed their territories into a Kievan appanage with the center in Vruchiy.

The Drevlians sent their best men who governed their land.

With the best and wisest men out of the way, she planned to destroy the remaining Drevlians.

The Drevlians begged for mercy and offered to pay for their freedom with honey and furs.

After Sviatoslav's death ( 972 ), a fratricidal war erupted ( 976 ) between Yaropolk and his younger brother Oleg, ruler of the Drevlians.

The Drevlians ( Деревляни, Derevliany in Ukrainian ; Древляне, Drevlyane in Russian ) were a tribe of Early East Slavs between the 6th and the 10th century, which inhabited the territories of Polesia, Right-bank Ukraine west of Polans, down the stream of the rivers Teteriv, Uzh, Ubort, and Stviga.

On the West, Drevlians ’ territories reached the Sluch River, where the Volynians ( related to the territory of Volynia ) and Buzhans ( related to the name of Southern Bug river ) lived.

On the North, Drevlians ’ neighbors were the Dregovichs.

The name of the tribe derives from the Slavic word древо or дерево ( drevo, or derevo ), which means " tree ", because the Drevlians used to live in thick woods.

The Drevlians left many archaeological traces, such as agricultural settlements with semi-dugouts ( or earth-houses ), moundless burial grounds and barrows, fortified towns like Vruchiy ( today's Ovruch ), Gorodsk, site of an ancient settlement near Malyn ( supposedly, a residence of the Drevlian prince Mal ) and others.

The principal city of the Drevlians was Iskorosten ( today ’ s Korosten ), where one can still see a group of compact ancient settlements.

By the end of the first millennium, the Drevlians already had well-developed farming and handicrafts.

According to a number of chronicles, in the times of Kyi, Schek and Khoriv ( supposedly, founders of Kiev ) the Drevlians had their own princely rule and were frequently at war with the Polans.

In 883, Prince Oleg of Novgorod made the Drevlians pay tribute to Kiev.

After Oleg ’ s death in 912, the Drevlians stopped paying tribute.

Oleg's successor Igor attempted to levy the tribute after Sveneld, but the Drevlians revolted and killed him in 945.

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