Faranak Amidi
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1,355 appearances
14 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 29 Aug
Faranak Amidi’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Quite unusually, she was thrown into the position of extreme vulnerability and extreme power at the same time.
She was the regent to her young son Svyatoslav after Prince Igor was killed by Drevlyans in 945 AD.
He was collecting tributes from the tribe and Drevlyans thought that the tribute was too much.
So they captured the prince.
They tied him to two different trees and tore him from limb to limb.
So it's really gruesome death.
And that probably explains the gruesomeness of Olga's revenge that came after it.
Which part of it is true?
Which part of it is legend?
We don't know because there is...
The tale of bygone years has echoes from, you know, Nordic sagas and all sorts of fairy tales.
But, well, what can I say?
Ninth century, tenth century seems to be a very cruel period of history.
So...
She's also the patron saint of widows.
And that's because of, obviously, because of Igor's murder and then how she took revenge.
But she's been portrayed as someone who took very brutal revenge.
She repaid cruelty with cruelty, one could say, but also cunning, because she was vulnerable as a woman in charge of principality of Kiev, and she was responsible for the life of her children.
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