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	Vladimir I of Kiev Summary
		Vladimir (Volodimir, Valdimar?; meaning "he who rules the world") was the Varangian, or Scandinavian, prince of Kiev who established Christianity in the lands of Rus' and is thereby recognized as the founder of the Russian (and Ukrainian) Orthodox church.
		Vladimir was partly motivated in his choice of religions by the political, military, and economic advantages of an alignment with the Byzantines, and he is also considered to have been influenced by the baptism of his grandmother Olga, who had become Kiev's ruler in 945 upon the death of her husband, Igor.
		Vladimir was the youngest son of Svyatoslav I by his housekeeper Malusha, described in the Norse sagas as a prophetess who lived to the age of 100 and was brought from her cave to the palace to predict the future.
	www.bookrags.com /Vladimir_I_of_Kiev (2156 words)

	Kommersant - Russia's Daily Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The village of Lesnoi and the Lunevo tract (Frunzensky District) are strip-farming territories of Vladimir.
		Vladimir Province was abolished in 1929, and its territory was split among Gorki, Moscow, and Ivanovo regions.
		Vladimir Region with the city of Vladimir as its center was formed on August 14, 1944, by decree of the Supreme Soviet Presidium of the USSR.
	www.kommersant.com /t-77/r_5/n_421/Vladimir_Region (3697 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Vladimir the Great
		To this Vladimir replied that he had already examined the doctrines of the Christians, was inclined towards them, and was ready to be baptized.
		These acts impressed the people with the helplessness of their gods, and when they were told that they should follow Vladimir's example and become Christians they were willingly baptized, even wading into the river that they might the sooner be reached by the priest for baptism.
		Vladimir urged all his subjects to become Christians, established churches and monasteries not only at Kieff, but at Pereyaslav, Chernigoff, Bielegorod, Vladimir in Volhynia, and many other cities.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15497a.htm (1171 words)

	Vladimir The Cathedral of Assumption
		In 1185, Vladimir was struck by a disaster typical of the period.
		Prince Vsevolod III, then the Prince of Vladimir not only repaired the cathedral (1185-1189), but also redesigned it to correspond to the spirit of age, while still carefully preserving the old building.
		The galleries were intended to serve as burial vaults for the princes of Vladimir and their walls were provided with niches for the sarcophagi.
	library.thinkquest.org /C006006F/engpart/vladimi2/vladimir2.htm (528 words)

	Vladimir I - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 970, Vladimir was sent by his father to govern Novgorod.
		Vladimir renounced his profligate ways and made Greek Orthodox Christianity the religion of his people.
		THE HIGH FLIER; Vladimir used to work as a coal miner in the Ukraine for pounds 39 a week.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-vladim1.html (463 words)

	Rus - Rulers
		Prince Roman Mstislavich of Volynia is killed while campaigning against the king of Lesser Poland, Leshka the White of Krakow, (1202-1227) and his brother, Conrad of Mazovia.
		Prince Yaroslav II Vsyevolodovich and his fourteen year old son, Aleksandr (later Nevski), force the Order knights onto the ice of the Omovzha River where many are drowned and others manage to reach Yur'yev.
		The Rus are led by the prince of Drutsk, Dmitrii, the druzhina of the prince of Volynsk, Prince Lev Daniilovich (10 yrs old?) and the brother of the great prince, Yuri II Vsyevolodovich, Svyatoslav of Starodub (or Yur'yev).
	www.xenophon-mil.org /rushistory/rulers/chron13cen.htm (9747 words)

	The Succession Question, by Pieter Broek, and my Rebuttal
		Vladimir recognized the royal status of the Bagration family, and this was accepted by Ferdinand of Spain.
		Prince Vladimir Kirillovich being a great grandson of a ruling Emperor contracted a marriage with an individual of a good standing and his daughter Princess Maria Vladimirovna is accordingly a Princess of Russia but follows in the line of succession after all the Princes of the blood.
		Prince Vladimir Kirillovich's appointment of his son in law Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia as a Russian Grand Duke verges on the farcical and it is interesting to note that since Prince Franz Wilhelm and Princess Maria Vladimirovna's divorce, Prince Franz Wilhelm has reverted to his correct rank of Prince of Prussia.
	www.geocities.com /konnoff/rebuttal.htm (1995 words)

	Vladimir, the grand prince of kiev - The World and I Magazine
		Vladimir began to notice that the merchants and traders were increasingly interested in matters of faith and practice.
		Vladimir now introduced Byzantine jurisprudence, which was based on canon law, and it was unusually lenient by the standards of the times.
		Vladimir, the grand prince of Kiev, was the catalyst for it all.
	www.worldandi.com /public/1998/march/wright.cfm (2750 words)

	Great Prince Vladimir Equal-to-the-Apostles and baptism of Russians
		When the Russian envoys arrived in Constantinople they were impressed to the depth of their souls by the splendor of the St. Sofia cathedral, the harmonious singing of the royal choir and the grandeur of the service conducted by the Patriarch.
		Vladimir's sons, saint martyrs Boris and Gleb, were a true model of Christian piety.
		Prince Vladimir's son Yaroslav the Wise, ordered churches built and people taught in the cities and settlements.
	www.fatheralexander.org /booklets/english/saints/vladimir_prince.htm (1930 words)

	A. Mouravieff : Introduction of Christianity into Russia
		The council of the Prince decided to send chosen men to make their observations on each religion on the spot where it was professed; and this public agreement explains in some degree the sudden and general acceptance of Christianity which shortly after followed in Russia.
		Vladimir in great joy made a vow that he would be baptized if he gained possession of the town; and he did gain possession of it.
		Many of the Prince's suite were so struck by his miraculous recovery that they followed his example and were baptized in like manner; and these were doubtless afterward zealous for the introduction of Christianity into their country.
	www.ellopos.net /elpenor/greek-texts/fathers/mouravieff-russia.asp (2662 words)

	Russian geography and history: Kievian Russia
		The Prince was proclaimed a sacral person by the Church, and this enabled him to be easily recognized by all the neophytes of the country.
		Vladimir even dreamt of abolishing the capital punishment, because he was afraid of being accused by God of numerous murders.
		Vladimir Monomakh was succeeded by his able and energetic son Mstislav (ruled 1125-1132) and after him by another son, Iaropolk, who reigned until his death in 1139.
	www.guidetorussia.org /geopolitics/kiev-russia.shtml (6720 words)

	Short History of Russia from Perun to Vladimir the Red Sun
		Prince Vladimir was the son of Prince Svyatoslav and Malusha, the Princess of the Drevlyany people.
		Vladimir's first wife (her name was not preserved), the mother of his sons Boris and Gleb, the first Russian saints, according to Priselkov could have been a member of the family of Tsar Samuel because of the fact that their Christian names, Roman and David, were very common among Samuel's courtiers.
		Another possibility is that the relations between Kiev and Ohrid cooled off after Prince Vladimir married Ana, the sister of the Byzantine emperor, after he was widowed by the death of his first wife.
	www.angelfire.com /pro2/politcentr/short-history-of-russia.html (3539 words)

	St. Vladimir Cathedral
		The cathedral is dedicated to Saint Prince Vladimir, who baptized Russia and made Christianity official state religion.
		Relieves depict Princess Olga, who was the first one in Russia to adopt Christianity, and her grandson prince Vladimir, who baptized Russia.
		Among the most precious frescoes of Saint Vladimir Cathedral are Vasnetsov's works The Baptizing of Kievers, Virgin with the Child, The Baptizing of Vladimir and others.
	www.kiev.info /culture/vladimir_cathedral.htm (400 words)

	Welcome to St. Vladimir Church Ann Arbor, MI
		Vladimir was the son of Prince Svyatoslav, and grandson of Igor and Olga, and was at first completely pagan in faith and life.
		When they returned, they told the Prince that they had been at a service in the Orthodox Church of St Sophia, and that they had been 'out of ourselves, not knowing if we were on earth or in heaven'.
		Grand Prince Vladimir - Father of Russian Culture (in Russian) by famous Russian scientist and historian Anton Kartashov.
	www.stvladimiraami.org /stvllife.asp (465 words)

	St. Vladimir of Kiev
		Prince Oleg, who had captured Kiev around 882, was a Viking, as was his descendant Vladimir; but most of the people that these Norsemen came to rule over were eastern Slavs.
		Vladimir therefore chose to affiliate with the patriarchate of Constantinople, adopting the liturgy of Byzantium, but designating as its liturgical language not Greek but the vernacular Slavonic, which had been developed by SS.
		More important, in this case, was Prince Vladimir's genuine effort thereafter to spread the Christian faith throughout his domains by building churches, by founding schools for the promotion of Christian knowledge, and by encouraging vocations to the priesthood and religious life.
	www.stthomasirondequoit.com /SaintsAlive/id655.htm (673 words)

	Vladimir I of Kiev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 977 Vladimir fled to his kinsmen in Scandinavia, collecting as many of the Viking warriors as he could to assist him to recover Novgorod, and on his return the next year marched against Yaropolk.
		The Primary Chronicle reports that in the year 987, as the result of a consultation with his boyars, Vladimir sent envoys to study the religions of the various neighboring nations whose representatives had been urging him to embrace their respective faiths.
		Vladimir agreed, in exchange for a marital tie; he also agreed to accept Orthodox Christianity as his religion and bring his people to the new faith.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vladimir_I_of_Kiev (1032 words)

	Two Women
		Vladimir sought by swift and unexpected military victory to pressure Constantinople into a hasty and one-sided alliance sealed by marriage.
		She was active as adviser to Vladimir and managed considerable lands and a large retinue on her own authority as Princess [19].
		Vladimir supplied the fist behind the Christianization of Rus', but it seems that it was Anna who supplied the will and the spirit.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~kimball/Xtxion.Olga.Anna.htm (2843 words)

	Vladimir Hotels.
		Vladimir is the unique Russian city with the millennial history, which starts at the end of the X century when Kievan Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavich founded the city on the bank of the Klyazma River.
		By the middle of the XII century the city became the capital of the North-East Russian State and was adorned with such architectural gems as the Golden Gate, Uspensky Cathedral, Dmitrievsky Cathedral and a variety of churches.
		Today Vladimir is the center of the Vladimirskaya Region, its industrial, educational and cultural center.
	www.hotels-russia.info /vladimir.htm (194 words)

	Prince Vladimir the Red Sun Accepts Jesus as his Saviour
		Vladimir then announced the return of the envoys who had been sent out, and suggested that their report be heard.
		Vladimir halted at the farther side of the city beside the bay, a bowshot from the town, and the inhabitants resisted energetically while Vladimir besieged the town.
		When Vladimir learned their response, he directed the envoys of the emperors to report to the latter that he was willing to accept baptism, having already given some study to their religion, and that the Greek faith and ritual, as described by the emissaries sent to examine it, had pleased him well.
	www.angelfire.com /pro2/politcentr/christian-russia.html (1085 words)

	Prince Martyrs Boris and Gleb, The Passionbearers
		Hardly had the saint prince gone to his bed, the murderers broke into the tent and speared him and his slave Georgui, a Hungarian, who tried to protect his master with his own body.
		After the church of Saint Vasilii was destroyed by a fire, the bodies of the princes were brought to a new church built in Vishgorod in their honor.
		When the caskets were opened, metropolitan Ioann and the clergy witnessed a miracle: the bodies of the saints were as white as snow and their faces were shining with holy light, a heavenly incense filled the church and all that were present awed.
	www.fatheralexander.org /booklets/english/saints/boris_gleb_prince.htm (650 words)

	Kievan Rus Database (Prince: Vladimir Monomakh Vsevolodovich) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The princes of large demenses were allowed to keep their possessions as long as they recognized the Kiev prince as the ruler of all Rus.
		Under his rule, the power of the Kievan prince extended to all the lands populated by the ancient Rus.
		He was the last prince to rule a unified Kievan realm.
	members.aol.com /ingigerthr/Prince_Vladimir_Monomakh_Vsevolodovich.html (473 words)

	Orthodox World
		Grand Prince Vladimir of Kiev decided that an official religion was necessary for his country and he was unsure which to choose: the Islam of the Volga Bulgars, the Judaism of the Khazars (on the lower Volga), the Latin Christianity of the Germans, or the Orthodox faith of the Greeks.
		After receiving the report of the envoys, Vladimir went to war with the Byzantine Empire and laid seige to the Greek city of Kherson.
		With the conversion of Vladimir (later canonized by the Russian Church-commemorated July 15), Orthodoxy spread rapidly and already, within fifty years, the Russian Church had her first canonized Saints, the martyred brothers Boris and Gleb (1015-commemorated together on July 24).
	www.orthodoxworld.ru /english/istoria/2 (503 words)

	Baptism of Rus
		Vladimir claimed to be a descendant of the Viking princes who had asserted political control in the late 800s over the native Slavic inhabitants of the land of Kievan Rus, a geographical area roughly equivalent to the present-day regions of Ukraine, Belorussia, and northwestern Russia.
		Vladimir listened to them for he was fond of women and indulgence, regarding which he heard with pleasure.
		On the morrow, the Prince went forth to the Dnieper with the priests of the Princess and those from Kherson, and a countless multitude assembled.
	www.stetson.edu /~psteeves/classes/baptismofrus.html (1954 words)

	Russia Profile - Redrawing Russian History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Produced by Andrei Dobrunov and directed by Yury Batanin, the picture is a hagiographic portrayal of Prince Vladimir, the ruler who led the conversion of ancient Russia to Christianity in the late 10th century.
		It shows a spiritually distraught prince consumed by the internecine wars against his brothers, battling heathen enemies and succumbing to the wicked ploys of a pagan high priest.
		With the second installment of “Prince Vladimir” scheduled for 2008 and the planned release next year of “Ilya Muromets,” the industry is set to continue the surge of production.
	www.russiaprofile.org /culture/2006/5/18/3723.wbp (1891 words)

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		The structure of the poem makes it clear that the story of this hapless prince is a device for the poet's true subject, which is the moral and political decline of the Kievan federation.
		It is precisely the notion that the prince is both physically and philosophically identified with the kingship, and the kingship with the "state," that the boiars seek to point out in their collective interpretation of Sviatoslav's premonition of his own death.
		The poet's method is one of contrasting two ages, the heroic age of the first princes Oleg, Igor, Sviatoslav and Vladimir (the latter died in 1015) with that of the successor princes also named Oleg, Sviatoslav, Igor and Vladimir.
	faculty.washington.edu /dwaugh/rus/texts/igorintr.htm (2169 words)

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		Vladimir was encamped at the side of the city nearest the harbour, at one shot's distance from it, and they fought valiantly in the city, and Vladimir beleaguered it.
		Vladimir entered the city with his druzhina, and he sent word to the Emperors Basil and Constantine: "I have taken your famous city.
		After that, Vladimir took the empress and Nastas, and the Korsun priests with the holy relics of Clement and Phoebus, his disciple, and church vessels, and images, for his own use.
	www.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/Vladimir.html (2014 words)

	H-Net Review: Charles J. Halperin on Prince, Saint and Apostle: Prince Vladimir Svjatoslavic of Kiev, his Posthumous ...
		Korpela views very skeptically claims that Vladimir was the "baptizer" of Rus', noting that there were Orthodox Christians in Kiev before the "official conversion" and that there was no mass baptism after it, only a very slow process of the diffusion of Orthodox Christianity to cities and then the countryside, which took centuries.
		Vladimir only became a saint in the late thirteenth century, probably at the behest of Metropolitan Maksim and the church council in Vladimir in Vladimir Suzdal'.
		Rejecting claims that Vladimir's conversion resulted in a mass baptism of the Rus' to Orthodox Christianity is the key to Korpela's argument that Kievan Rus' remained open to Catholic religious influence after Vladimir's death.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=169921061432669 (1295 words)

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