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OLGA

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Russian, Scandinavian, German, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Slovene, Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Portuguese, Spanish

Other Scripts: Ольга (Russian), Олга (Serbian, Bulgarian)

Pronounced: OL-gah (Russian), AWL-gah (German, Polish)  [key]

Russian form of HELGA. The 10th-century Saint Olga was the wife of Igor I, the prince of Kievan Rus (a state based around the city of Kiev). After she was baptized in Constantinople she attempted to convert her subjects to Christianity.


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