Two Parts to Kyiv (The Pogosts)
947. Olha stops the prince's armed winter tribute circuit and sets up pogosts, posts with fixed quotas, on the Msta and Luga; two parts of the Drevlian tribute go to Kyiv and one to Vyshhorod, her town; hunting lodges supply falcons for the Byzantine trade. Chronicle, broadly accepted by historians as the first Rus' revenue reform; the exact quotas and dates in the song are the Chronicle's, and 'my sledge still stands in Pskov' is the chronicler's own aside.
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