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Birth:          ABT  934 
Death:          1002 

Notes
formerly his concubine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malusha
Malusha/Malfrida[1][2] (Old Ruthenian: ?????a, Old Norse: Málfríđr)[3] historically is 
known as a servant (kholopka) for Olga of Kiev and wife of Sviatoslav I of Kiev. 
According to Slavonic chronicles, she was the mother of Vladimir the Great and sister 
of Dobrynya. The Norse sagas describe Vladimir's mother as a prophetess who lived to 
the age of 100 and was brought from her cave to the palace to predict the future. 
Malusha monuments in Korosten, Ukraine, with her young son Vladimir.[1]

Origin[edit]

As the chronicles are silent on the subject of Malusha's pedigree, 19th-century 
Russian and Ukrainian historians devised various theories to explain her parentage 
and name.

Alexei Shakhmatov considered Malusha to be the daughter of Mstisha Sveneldovich, 
son of Sveneld, a Varangian warlord. He believed that the name Malusha was a 
slavinized version of a Scandinavian name Malfried.[4] In this case, Malusha was of 
Norse origin.[5] The Primary Chronicle records that a certain Malfried died in 1000. 
This record follows that of Rogneda's death. Since Rogneda was Vladimir's wife, 
historians assume that Malfried was another close relative of the ruling prince, 
preferably his wife or mother.

The anti-Normanist historian Dmitry Ilovaisky managed to draw an opposite 
conclusion: that the Slavic name Malusha was turned into a Scandinavian Malfried. 
This claim received no wider support. Dmitry Prozorovsky believed that Malusha was 
the daughter of Mal, a Drevlyan leader.[6] The same one that wanted to marry Olga of 
Kiev after she became a widow.[7]

Parents
OF LUBECK Mal (Malk) (ABT  900 - )
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Siblings
OF LUBECK Maloucha (Malusha) (Malfreda) (Debrima) (ABT  934 - 1002)

Marriage To IGORJEWITSCH Avatislav (Svyatoslav) I ( 920 -  972)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
____ Igor I ( 877 -  945)
____ Olga ( 890 - 11 Jul  969)

Children by IGORJEWITSCH Avatislav (Svyatoslav) I  920 -  972
SWJATOSLAWITSCH VLADIMIR I "The Great" ( 955 - 15 Jul 1015)

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