Faranak Amidi

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1,355 appearances 14 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 29 Aug

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The Documentary Podcast · Fruit Wars! · 11 Jul 2026 podcast

son but Drevlans

sensed weakness.

Here's a widow.

She's weak.

And Kiev principality is rich.

So they sent matchmakers.

They wanted Olga to marry a Drevlyan prince called Mal.

And they sent a delegation to ask for her hand in marriage.

She knew what their designs were.

So she dispensed with the delegation proposing marriage and

in a very inhumane probably way because she pretended to be considering this proposal of marriage and in the meantime she asked her minions to dig a massive hole in the ground and they were buried alive in that massive hole.

Yeah, that was revenge number one.

But that wasn't enough for Olga.

So she sent word that she would like Drevlyans to send a more representative, richer delegation to Kiev if they want to seek her hand in marriage.

So another delegation came, encompassing a number of prominent Drevlyans,

and she said, you have to wash before the feast.

So they went to a sauna and were locked in there and burnt.

And again, I insist, Farinag, that we say this is all part of the chronicle and gruesome fairy tale.

I don't think that real-life cruelness of her revenge measured up to what is being depicted in later years.

But that kind of ruthlessness was quite common among leaders, men.

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