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Oleg the Wise

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Lay of Oleg the Wise by Viktor Vasnetsov (1899)

Oleg (Old East Slavic: Ѡлегъ, Ольгъ), known as Oleg the Wise, Oleg of Novgorod or Oleg of Kiev, was a Varangian prince of the Rus' who became the first prince of Kiev, thereby laying the foundations of the Kievan Rus' state.

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