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Nicolai Levashov. The Mirror of My Soul. Vol. 1. Born in the USSR

However, this is not the only discrepancy in the generally accepted “interpretation”

of history that draws attention. Most modern Russian historians assert that Malka and
her brother Dobrynya were the children of the prince of the Drevlyans called Mal. Let
us analyze this.

The principality of the Drevlyans was annexed to the Kievan principality when the
prince Igor (Svyatoslav’s father) made it his vassal domain. The modern interpretation
of history asserts that the Drevlyans rebelled against Prince Igor and killed him. The
reason for the revolt was Igor’s alleged attempt to levy tribute twice. These events
happened in 6453-6454 (according to the Slavonic-Aryan chronology) or in 945-946
A.D. But it seems to me that the next distortion of history takes place here.

Most likely, the Drevlyans tried to get rid of the vassalage of the Kievan throne.
And probably, the first tribute was nothing else, but a military tax contribution paid in

order that Prince Igor would not ravage the capital of the Drevlyans, Korosten.
Otherwise, it is impossible to explain why Prince Igor came to take the first
“contribution” with all his military forces and then he came to take the second one, the
so-called illegal contribution, only with a small retinue! It appears ridiculous!

Igor came to take a “legal” contribution with his army and the “illegal” one—only
with several warriors. Looking at it from this point of view, everything should have been
the contrary! But when we assume that in 6453 (945 A.D.), Prince Igor overpowered

and subordinated this principality, returned from the military campaign with rich booty
and then returned to take the contribution according to the agreement about the
vassalage, then everything fits into its corresponding place. And then it becomes clear
why he came to take the contribution only with several warriors—he did not came to
conquer this principality again, but only collect the contribution. The Drevlyans took
advantage of this moment and killed him.

After that Duchess Olga came to the capital of the Drevlyans, Korosten, and burnt
it to the ground. I will not repeat the beautiful legend of how Duchess Olga punished the
killers of her be-loved husband; it is described quite well in modern sources. But the
following acts of the broken-hearted Duchess Olga became quite difficult to understand.
She made the daughter of her husband’s killer, the Drevlyans Prince Mal, her
housekeeper and kept his son close to her baby son Svyatoslav in 6453 (945 A.D.) .
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On the one hand, even if all this happened when several years had passed after the
Drevlyans had killed Igor and Duchess Olga imprisoned Prince Mal, the children of the
latter were already quite grown-up, considering the fact that Dobrynya could became a
voyevoda. Not to mention the fact that Malka could not be Svyatoslav’s concubine and
give birth to his son, Vladimir, because she had been a young woman already, when he

just was born!

On the other hand, if we accept the modern interpretation of history, we should
accept that the illegitimate Svyatoslav’s son from Malka, the princess of the Drevlyans,
Vladimir who was born in 6471 (963 A.D.) killed his elder brothers, Yaropolk and Oleg,
after Svyatoslav’s death and became the Kievan prince at the age of seventeen!

But, the most surprising thing in this story is that when Vladimir, the illegitimate
Svyatoslav’s son, was born, Svyatoslav was only eighteen years old, which means that

59 Svyatoslav’s date of birth is not determined exactly. Some sources give the date of 942 A.D., some – 946 A.D.
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