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

Absolutely.

That wasn't enough for Olga, okay, because then she sent the word to Drevlians that she's going to come and organize a massive wake for her murdered husband, Prince Igor, near Drevlian land, and their capital is Korostyn.

So Drevlians sent their best warriors to that wake in honor of Igor's

And how they organized wakes in those days, according to the Chronicles, they put up a massive mound and organized something like war games, I would say, you know, almost like a jousting competition.

And when everybody was drunk, she ordered her own soldiers to murder the Drevlians, and the best soldiers were murdered.

And a year later, she marched on Drevlians' capital.

She couldn't take it, and then she won by cunning.

She basically told the residents of Iskorosten,

you're going to starve to death.

Let's stop this.

I have had enough of revenging my husband's death.

And I know that you are poor probably.

So all I want from you is a small tribute of one pigeon and one sparrow from each household.

And Drevlian's houses were made of wood, so at night she instructed her soldiers to burn a piece of tinder tied to the little legs of all those birds, and birds flocked home, burning their houses, because everything was built from wood, so everything went up in smoke.

City dwellers, town dwellers were...

killed while escaping the fire, and those who survived were sold into slavery.

So that was the four revenges of Olga that went down in history and have been depicted with different degrees of detail by different chronicles.

Yeah, well, Olga as a widow, she was quite a ruthless... Not to be trifled with, basically.

Yeah, exactly, exactly.

But she's also known as the patron saint of converts.

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