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Has Paris always been a city of dreams?

There was a time when European kings were looking for an alliance with Kievan Rus - a powerful state, a center of trade and culture. In 1044, King Henry I of France sent an embassy to Kyiv - to ask for the hand of Princess Anna, daughter of the Grand Duke of Kyiv Yaroslav the Wise. The prince did not immediately agree, but in April 1049 a wedding procession finally passed through the streets of Paris.

Here is what Anna wrote to her father shortly after her arrival: “To what barbarous country did you send me!

However, Anna was true to her duty as Queen of France. After the death of Henry I, while their son Philip was still young, Anna took over the government. Her signature is on many state documents next to the crosses put by illiterate royal nobles.

And two years later, the Queen of France was kidnapped from the castle of Senlis, where her residence was, a descendant of Charlemagne, Count Raul de Crepy de Valois, and they were married in the church of the castle of Crepy by a local priest. Apparently, the count managed to win the love of a Kiev woman. Soon she returned to court with her new husband and again took part in public affairs.

Many such documents have been preserved, on which her signature is next to the signature of Philip I: "Anne, mother of the king of France." It can be seen that the Kyiv princess was really distinguished by her outstanding abilities. The Pope himself wrote to her: "We hear with great joy that you are fulfilling your royal duties with commendable zeal and a wonderful mind ..."

Author: Cellarius E.Yu.

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In Buddhism, Tara is a female bodhisattva who has achieved perfection and liberation, but refused to enter nirvana out of compassion for people. After Catherine II established the post of Pandita-Khambo-Lama - the head of the Buddhists of Eastern Siberia and Transbaikalia, the Buryat lamas recognized her as the earthly incarnation of White Tara - one of the hypostases of Tara, who is a healer and bestows good luck. Since then, Buddhists have revered every ruler of the Russian state in the form of White Tara, regardless of whether he was a woman or a man.

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