This paper was read at a Symposium on The Byzantine Mission to the Slavs: St. Cyril and St. Methodius’ held at Dumbarton Oaks in May
Russia and Byzantium in the Mid-Tenth Century: The Problem of the Baptism of Princess Olga
The mid-tenth century was a critical point in the relations between Russia and the Byzantine Empire. These relations had begun in-auspiciously a hundred years earlier,