Princess Anna Biography

All materials on May 19 in Paris took place a wedding, as a result of which the Russian princess became the French queen, the youngest daughter of Yaroslav the Wise - Anna Yaroslavna. Standing next to her summer spouse, King Henry I, she could not even think about what political battles will erupt around her name almost a millennium after this woman, unfortunately, has preserved very little news.

In Russian chronicles about her, as well as about her sisters, there are no references at all. At one time, it was believed that girls, including Anna, were depicted on one of the frescoes built under Yaroslav with the wise of the Kyiv Sophia Cathedral. However, in the years of the last century, Soviet historians challenged this opinion. They argued that the arrangement of the fresco did not correspond to the Byzantine tradition - if she portrayed the princely daughters, she would have to be located elsewhere.

The exact date and even the year of the birth of Anna Yaroslavna are also unknown. The French believe that she was born in the year. There is another version - a year. It is indicated in Tatishchevsky Izvestia - a kind of annalistic vault, compiled by the pioneer of Russian historical science, the associate of Peter I Vasily Nikitich Tatishchev. He wrote his work on the basis of the annals, many of which were either lost or simply falsified.

The Orthodox Church celebrates the day of the princess’s memory on July 24, one way or another, but in the first half of the XI century the Grand Duke of Rus', Yaroslav the Wise, married his daughters for European monarchs, thereby building his foreign policy. He began not even with his daughters, but the sisters of Maria Dobrony, who was given to the Polish Prince Casimir I in the year.

In the same year, the middle of his daughters - Anastasia Yaroslavna - married the Hungarian Duke of Andrash Andrei. With the active assistance of the test 8 years later, he became the Hungarian king Andrash I. In the year, the eldest daughter of Prince Yaroslav - Elizabeth in the Scandinavian version of Ellisiv - married another European political emigrant - Harald III Sigurdarson.

He managed to sit down on the Norwegian throne. True, although he made enthusiastic songs dedicated to the princess before the wedding, but two years after the beginning of his reign, he married another woman. The youngest daughter of the Grand Duke, fate had to go beyond all of his children. First, her hand or hand Anastasia was offered to the German emperor Henry III - Prince Yaroslav acquired allies on the eve of the planned war with Byzantium.

At the beginning of the year, a special Kiev embassy arrived in Goslar to conduct negotiations.

However, the Germans were more preoccupied with the conflict with France, so the emperor refused the proposals of Yaroslav and married Agnes Aquitaine, whose father Gilom Vvladel was a significant part of the lands of modern France. But the French became interested in Anna. In the year, the royal embassy went to Kyiv. In addition to the matchmaking to the princess, he was also instructed to find out whether Chersonesos is far from Kyiv, where, as the European churchmen were known, the relics of St.

Clement were resting. But only two of them gained recognition thanks to a large mind - Yaroslav Osorav Galitsky and Yaroslav the Wise. Perhaps this was the second embassy, ​​which delivered the princess to France three years after the visit of the first delegation. The division of the Christian church into Catholic and Orthodox occurred only three years later, so there were no confessional obstacles to the marriage of the French king and the Russian princess.

The fact that the "daughter of the king of Russians Anna" became the French queen, reports in his date the chronicle of "Acts of the modern kings of the Franks" a certain Gugon from Fleuri. It is curious that on jointly signed documents, the European monarch instead of the signature put a cross, which speaks of his ... illiteracy. It is believed that among other jewelry in her dowry, Anna, perhaps, brought the Church Slavonic manuscript gospel, or rather its first part, which is written by Cyrillic.

Nowadays, this book is stored in the Reims Cathedral, which is why it is called the Reims Gospel. From at least the 16th century, French kings swore allegiance to it. Anna began family life, children went. In the year, the first -born, the heir to the throne appeared, who, after 7 years, was to become the next king Philip I. Before the appearance of the Russian princess in France, this Greek name, meaning "loving horses", was not found among European monarchs.

Three years later, the daughter of Emma was born. Then there were two more sons, of which one child - Robert - died in infancy, and Hugo later became Count Vermandua. Judging by the fact that while the king was hello, the name of Anna in the royal charters was almost not found, the attitude towards her on his part was cool. Her name appears in the last months of the reign of Henry I, when it became clear that she soon had to become a guardian under the young king.

True, in a detailed report on the coronation of Philip I, it is not mentioned.The chronicle about this event is first used by Ukraine. This mention gave rise to a discussion of what to understand by Ukraine in relation to the times of Kievan Rus. The letter of Pope Nikolai dated to Anna, dated to Anna, has been preserved: "The rumor of your virtues, the delightful maiden, reached our ears, and with great joy we hear that you fulfill its royal duties in this very Christian state with commendable zeal and a wonderful mind." Soon, however, the papal throne changed his opinion about the daughter of Yaroslav the Wise - she re -married.

Until a year, she shared custody of her son along with Baudouin Flanders, but in the same year her signature disappears from royal acts. Apparently, it was then that she became the wife of Count Raul de Creepy. In the dowry from their deceased husband, the second spouse from Anna crossed Sanlis, the region of Melena and a number of possessions between Lan and Chalon.

De Creepy and possibly owned a significant part of the territory of modern France, and now he has become in the kingdom of just one of the most influential people. For the sake of marriage with the Dowager Queen, this feudal lord accused his second wife of adultery, drove her away and, not waiting for the churchmen for divorce permission, married Anna Yaroslavna. In addition, the count was a relative of her first husband.

According to the laws of that time, this was considered two -way and adultery. Dad excommunicated de Creepy from the church. The king forbade the "newlyweds" to appear at court. He changed his anger only 9 years later, in the year, and exclusively for mercantile reasons - the war for the Flanders inheritance was expected, and he needed allies, and his stepfather was just lying between Paris and Flanders.

Raul de Creepy died on September 8, and Anna Yaroslavna returned to the court. Her last autograph is on the document dating from a year. In it, she just means “the king’s mother,” that is, the royal title, she had already lost by that time. The exact year of her death is unknown. Judging by the time when her name appears in the church commemorations of the Saint-Vensan monastery in Sanlis, she died on September 5 between and years.

Most likely, it was in the same Saint-Vensan, because the monastery was founded by it in the year, but during subsequent restructuring the grave was lost. In gratitude to the Russian princess in the 17th century in Saint-Vensan, in honor of Anna, her sculpture with a small model of the temple in her hand founded her. Ukrainian sculptors then borrowed this idea when they created a sculpture in honor of her father, who stands in Kyiv near the Golden Gate.

In modern Ukraine, it was not called the Russian princess, as it is mentioned in all Western sources, but of Kyiv. In order to “stake up” the moment, Ukrainian figures insisted that in the year in the abbey of Saint-Vensan, the signature under the sculpture of the 17th century changed. In the year, the main beekeeper, Tripolodist and part -time President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko opened in Sanlis another monument dedicated to Anna Yaroslavna with the same inscription: "Anna Kiev, Queen of France." Scientific myth or historical reality of the existence of the Old Russian nation has acquired a distinct political character.

Not least, this is due to the desire of political elites in Belarus and Ukraine to distance himself as much as possible from Russia and Russian history on November 10 of the year, a sculpture dedicated to Yaroslavna appeared in its children's image and in Kyiv. She was installed on Lviv Square with the same signature, claiming that she was Anna Kiev. Moreover, her strange crown for the Russian princess is somewhat reminiscent of the headdress of the American statue of freedom.

In the rising Val, a few sober statements drowned from the historical science of wordobludia. So, for example, few people heard a well -deserved Ukrainian historian, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, director of the Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Peter Tolochko: "By ethnicity and state princess Anna Yaroslavna was Russian.

Putin said everything correctly. And at the place of residence she was Kyiv. I do not see a reason for the indignation of our political scientists and politicians. "