Historical visiting card «Rogneda – Polotsk duchess»
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- Created on Friday, 14 June 2024 10:31
Within the framework of the library project «Belarus – the country of my future» the youth department continues to familiarize with outstanding personalities of the belarusian history.
This time it will be story about princess Rogneda, known not only for her dramatic fate, but also for her boundless devotion to her native Polotsk land.
She stood at the origins of belarusian statehood and cared for the development of her native land in times of hardship for Polotsk. At the same time Rogneda, having experienced agony and pain, did not break down, did not change either herself or the memory of her ancestors, became a true example of a life feat. Her sons Izyaslav and Yaroslav the Wise, great-grandson Vseslav and great-granddaughter st. Euphrosyne of Polotsk left a significant trace in the history of the slavic world.