Knyaginya

Although the above documents show the knyaginya’s activity, preserved and documented only under her name from the second marriage, with the exception of the will of Fedor Sanguszko, they do simultaneously present her character.

She said that it was certainly a kingly feat to dispatch one’s own brothers from the world, as her husband Yaroslav the Wise had done, but as knyaginya, she found it far less honorable for Yaroslav to have four wives in addition to herself, as well as seven concubines.

As the remembrance formula is more developed in the second edition, we present it here: […] for the right-believing Ladies and Great Knyaginyas Maria Nikolaevna, Olga Nikolaevna, and for her husband: […]

It should be noted that we believe it is absolutely certain that all these miliarensia, handed out so generously by the Byzantine emperor to the Russian knyaginya and different members of her entourage on this visit, which took place in 946, were of the type “Constantine VII with Romanos II”, whose production had begun only about a year and a half earlier.