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Volodymyr the Great

Vladimir the Great
Владимир царь Киев Праздничная минея 1619.JPG
Miniature from a 17th-century Menaion
Grand Prince of Kiev
Reign 11 June 980 – 15 July 1015
Coronation 11 June 980
Predecessor Yaropolk I of Kiev
Successor Sviatopolk I of Kiev
Prince of Novgorod
Reign 969 – c.  977
Predecessor Sviatoslav I of Kiev
Successor Yaropolk I of Kiev
Born c.  958
Budyatychi (modern Volyn Oblast, Ukraine)
Died 15 July 1015(1015-07-15) (aged c.  57)
Berestove (today a part of Kiev)
Burial Church of the Tithes, Kiev
Spouse
Issue
among others
Full name
Vladimir Sviatoslavich
Dynasty Rurikids
Father Sviatoslav I of Kiev
Mother Malusha (probably of Northern origin)
Religion Chalcedonian Christianity (from 988)
prev. Slavic pagan
Full name
Vladimir Sviatoslavich
Saint Vladimir of Kiev
St. Volodymyr.jpg
Icon of Saint Vladimir, Novgorod, 16th century
Prince of Novgorod
Grand Prince of Kiev
Born c. 958
Died 15 July 1015
Venerated in
Feast 15 July
Attributes crown, cross, throne

Vladimir the Great (also (Saint) Vladimir of Kiev; Old East Slavic: Володимѣръ Свѧтославичь, Volodiměrъ Svętoslavičь,Old Norse Valdamarr gamli; c. 958 – 15 July 1015, Berestove) was a prince of Novgorod, grand prince of Kiev, and ruler of Kievan Rus' from 980 to 1015.

Vladimir's father was prince Sviatoslav of the Rurik dynasty. After the death of his father in 972, Vladimir, who was then prince of Novgorod, was forced to flee to Scandinavia in 976 after his brother Yaropolk had murdered his other brother Oleg and conquered Rus'. In Sweden, with the help from his relative Ladejarl Håkon Sigurdsson, ruler of Norway, he assembled a Varangian army and reconquered Novgorod from Yaropolk. By 980, Vladimir had consolidated the Kievan realm from modern-day Belarus, Russia and Ukraine to the Baltic Sea and had solidified the frontiers against incursions of Bulgarian, Baltic, and Eastern nomads. Originally a follower of Slavic paganism, Vladimir converted to Christianity in 988 and Christianized the Kievan Rus'.


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