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Vladimir I Sviatoslavich or Volodymyr I Sviatoslavych [7] (Old East Slavic: Володимѣръ Свѧтославичь, romanized: Volodiměr Svętoslavič; [a] [b] [9] Christian name: Basil; [10] c. 958 – 15 July 1015), given the epithet "the Great", [11] was Prince of Novgorod from 970 and Grand Prince of Kiev from 978 until his death in 1015.
The Conversion of Volodimer [1] is a narrative recorded in several different versions in medieval sources about how Vladimir the Great converted from Slavic paganism to Byzantine Christianity in the 980s.
John Skylitzes reported that Vladimir had a brother named Sfengus; whether this Sfengus was a son of Sviatoslav, a son of Malusha by a prior or subsequent husband, or an unrelated Rus' nobleman is unclear. [32] Children. Predslava. Oleg of Drelinia (died 977?) Yaropolk I of Kiev (952–978) Malusha. Vladimir the Great (c. 958 – 1015) Sfengus?
A depiction of Yaroslav the Wise from Granovitaya Palata. The early years of Yaroslav's life are mostly unknown. He was one of the numerous sons of Vladimir the Great, presumably his second by Rogneda of Polotsk, [5] although his actual age (as stated in the Primary Chronicle and corroborated by the examination of his skeleton in the 1930s) [6] would place him among the youngest children of ...
The family of Vladimir I, popularly known as Vladimir the Great (c. 958–1015), prince of Kievan Rus', is subject to scholarly studies.The primary sources about his life, such as the Primary Chronicle and the Chronicon Thietmari of Thietmar of Merseburg, are legendary, and require critical scrutiny to separate fact (or history) from fiction (or mythology).
The Monument to Vladimir the Great (Russian: Па́мятник Влади́миру Вели́кому) is a 17.5-metre-high monument to Vladimir the Great, [1] located in Borovitskaya Square in central Moscow. It was designed by the designer Salavat Scherbakov on the initiative of the Russian Military Historical Society and the city ...
Vladimir Yaroslavich (Russian: Владимир Ярославич; Old Norse: Valdamarr Jarizleifsson; [1] 1020 – October 4, 1052) was Prince of Novgorod from 1036 until his death in 1052. [2] He was the eldest son of Yaroslav I the Wise by Ingegerd Olofsdotter , a daughter of Olof Skötkonung , the king of Sweden . [ 3 ]
Sviatopolk's mother was a Greek nun captured by Sviatoslav I in Bulgaria and married to his lawful heir Yaropolk I, who became the prince in 972.In 980, Yaropolk's brother Vladimir had him murdered, and the new sovereign married his predecessor's wife, who gave birth to a child.