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Rogneda Rogvolodovna
ROGNEDA ROGVOLODOVNA
(960 – c. 1000)
Princess of Polotsk. First Christian nun in Ancient Russia
Rogneda was the daughter of Rogvolod the Prince of Polotsk, the wife of Saint apostolic Grand Duke Vladimir Svyatoslavovich, the Baptist of Russia. She was the mother of Yaroslav the Wise (from 1019 prince of Kiev), one of the founders of the dynasties of Rogvolodovich and Rurik princes. After a failed assassination attempt on the life of Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavovich at the end of 980s, she was exiled together with her two sons to the principality of Polotsk, the fortress Izyaslavl, founded by Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavovych and named in honour of the eldest son Izyaslav (now Zaslauye, Minsk district, Minsk region ). After 988 she adopted Christianity, under the name of Anastasia she entered Izyaslav convent, which was built at the end of X century and became the centre of the dissemination of Christian religion in the territory of modern Belarus.
Literature:
Масляніцына І.А. Рагнеда Рагвалодаўна // Асветнікі зямлі Беларускай: Энцыклапедычны даведнік. Мінск: Беларуская Энцыклапедыя, 2001. С. 337–338.
© National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 2011
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