The Drevlians sent their best men who governed their land.

The leader of the Drevlians had hopes of marrying the widow Olga and sent messengers to discuss the idea.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

** Sviatoslav (~ 982 – 1015 ), Prince of Drevlians ( 990 – 1015 )

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

" 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.

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 Drevlians opposed fervently any attempts by outsiders to include them in Kievan Rus.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

# It is improbable that Athens would have sent twenty vessels to the aid of the Ionians in 499 BC if at the time she were at war with Aegina.

An international reply coupon ( IRC ) is a coupon that can be exchanged for one or more postage stamps representing the minimum postage for an unregistered priority airmail letter of up to twenty grams sent to another Universal Postal Union ( UPU ) member country.

Still hoping to be promoted to the office of Legate of Spain, Diego sent envoys to Rome, carrying with them 300 gold Almoravid coins, two hundred and twenty for Honorius and another eighty for the Curia.

The Pope sent as nuncio extraordinary to Ireland, Giovanni Battista Rinuccini, archbishop of Fermo, who arrived at Kilkenny with a large quantity of arms, military supplies including twenty thousand pounds of gunpowder, and a very large sum of money .< ref >" con somme cospicue di pecunia ed altre munizioni ", G. Alazzi, Nunciatura in Irlanda di Monsignor Gio.

On 29 April 1992, a twenty five year old Captain Valentine Strasser lead a group of seven junior officers in the Sierra Leone army that that included Lieutenant Sahr Sandy, Sergeant Solomon Musa, Lieutenant Tom Nyuma, Captain Julius Maada Bio and Captain Komba Mondeh came all the way from their military baracks in Kailahun District and launched a military coup in Freetown, which sent president Momoh into exile in Guinea and the young soldiers established the National Provisional Ruling Council ( NPRC ) with Strasser as its chairman and Head of State of the country.

The third of four children, Pujol was sent at age seven to the Valldemia boarding school run by the Marist Brothers in Mataró, twenty miles from Barcelona and remained there for the next four years.

In 1009 Wulfnoth was accused of unknown crimes at a muster of Æthelred the Unready's fleet and fled with twenty ships ; the ships sent to pursue him were destroyed in a storm.

In 1886, twenty of the Hopi leaders signed a petition sent to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs requesting that a school be built on their land.

The English Parliament, believing the Dutch to be near defeat, sent away twenty ships to strengthen the position in the Mediterranean.

He built up a good practise as a speech therapist and was patronised by Sir John Forbes MD FRS, who sent him pupils for twenty four years.

Julia died in 29 AD on the same island where she had been sent in exile twenty years earlier.

Pryor battered Arguello around the ring for the first minute of the round, until a hard combination drove a staggering Arguello to the ropes, where Pryor proceeded to land a grisly series of almost twenty unanswered punches that nearly sent Arguello out of the ring.

The battery-powered transmitter provided internal package temperature for about sixteen days and sent tracking signals for twenty days.

Bishop Braulio, to whom Isidore dedicated it and sent it for correction, divided it into its twenty books.

Robinson credited the song to the Blue Belles, who later were sent to promote the song, which peaked at the top twenty of the Billboard Hot 100, in 1962.

She sent off twenty copies of a strip called The Johnstons, based on her own family " since we were the only people I knew I could draw over and over again with some consistency.

Next, Bacchides was sent with Alcimus and an army of twenty thousand infantry and two thousand cavalry, and met Judah at the Battle of Elasa ( Laisa ), where this time it was the Hasmonean commander who was killed.

They bounced right back, but were again sent down, this time to spend seventeen of the next twenty years in the second tier.

The cylinder of serum was sent by train from the southern port of Seward to Nenana, where it was passed just before midnight on January 27 to the first of twenty mushers and more than 100 dogs who relayed the package from Nenana to Nome.

Not too long after, Ōishi went to his loyal wife of twenty years and divorced her so that no harm would come to her when they took revenge, and sent her away with their two younger children to live with her parents ; for the eldest boy, Chikara, he gave a choice to stay and fight or to leave.

In this book, Norman presents his personal theories of human evolution, exemplified by the case of a modern woman sent back in time twenty thousand years or more ; he mourns the loss of human evolutionary fitness and distortion of " natural " social relations which in his view occurred when farming spread, and farmers squeezed hunter / gatherers to the ecological margins.

The District of Columbia and governors of twenty states sent flags flown over state capital buildings to be carried to Lewis ' grave by residents of the states associated with the Lewis and Clark Trail.

He was prepared for college at an academy at Trim, County Meath, twenty miles from Dublin, and subsequently was sent to Dublin University.

Eden's Deputy Commissioner, Major A. G. Duff, sent a Mr. Duke, one of his assistants, to Thaybyoo Creek, between the Sittang and Beeling rivers, on the Gulf of Martaban, where he found a 37-ft whale, which had stranded there in June 1871 after swimming more than twenty miles up the creek — it was said to have " exhausted itself by its furious struggles " to get free and " roared like an elephant " before finally expiring.