Oleg of Dereva
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| name = Oleg Sviatoslavich
| title = Prince of the Drevlians
| image = Убийство на охоте Олегом Святославичем Древлянским Люта Свенельдича, сына киевского воеводы.jpg
| caption = The murder of Lyut Sveneldich, son of the Kiev voivode Sveneld, by Oleg. Miniature from the Radziwiłł Chronicle (15th century)
| reign = 970–977
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| house = Rurik
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| father = Sviatoslav I of Kiev
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| death_date = 977
| death_place = Ovruch
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| place of burial = Church of the Tithes
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Oleg Sviatoslavich ({{lang|ru|Олег Святославич}}; died 977){{cite book |last1=Kohn |first1=George Childs |title=Dictionary of Wars |date=31 October 2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-95494-9 |page=411 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qTDfAQAAQBAJ |language=en}} was the prince of the Drevlians from 970 until his death in 977.W. Dworzaczek, Genealogia, Warszawa 1959, tabl. 21. He was the second son of Sviatoslav I of Kiev of the Rurik dynasty.
Biography
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File:Оплакивание и погребение Олега Святославича у города Овруча.jpg]]
Oleg's date of birth is not known, but it is probably before 957. Sviatoslav split up his domains, and gave the Drevlian lands to Oleg in 970.{{cite book |last1=Feldbrugge |first1=Ferdinand J. M. |title=A History of Russian Law: From Ancient Times to the Council Code (Ulozhenie) of Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich of 1649 |date=2 October 2017 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-35214-8 |page=340 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TDI9DwAAQBAJ |language=en}} Oleg and his brother Yaropolk went to war after their father's death. According to the Primary Chronicle, Oleg killed Lyut, the son of Yaropolk's chief adviser and military commander Sveneld, when he hunted in the Drevlian lands which Oleg regarded as his own.Alexander Nazarenko. Древняя Русь на международных путях. Moscow, 2001. {{ISBN|5-7859-0085-8}}. Page 361. In an act of revenge and at the insistence of Sveneld, Yaropolk went to war against his brother Oleg and killed him in Ovruch. Oleg was killed incidentally on the run in moat, and Yaropolk did regret this.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} Then, Yaropolk sent his men to Novgorod, from which his other brother Vladimir had fled on receiving the news about Oleg's death. Yaropolk became the sole ruler of Kievan Rus'.
In 1044, Yaroslav I the Wise had Oleg's bones exhumed, christened, and reburied in the Church of the Tithes.The Notion of "Uncorrupted Relics" in Early Russian Culture, Gail Lenhoff, Christianity and the Eastern Slavs: Slavic cultures in the Middle Ages, Vol. I, ed. B. Gasparov, Olga Raevsky-Hughes, (University of California Press, 1993), 264.
Possible descendants
There is a Czech legend (mentioned by Jan Amos Komenský (in Spis o rodu Žerotínů), Bartosz Paprocki and Bohuslav Balbín, among others), that the noble House of Zierotin descends from Oleg (see :ru:Олег Моравский for details).{{cn|date=July 2024}}
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