Volodymyr the Great
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| 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 | ||||
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c. 958 Budyatychi (modern Volyn Oblast, Ukraine) |
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| Died | 15 July 1015 (aged c. 57) Berestove (today a part of Kiev) |
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| Burial | Church of the Tithes, Kiev | ||||
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| Dynasty | Rurikids | ||||
| Father | Sviatoslav I of Kiev | ||||
| Mother | Malusha (probably of Northern origin) | ||||
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Chalcedonian Christianity (from 988) prev. Slavic pagan |
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| Vladimir Sviatoslavich |
| Saint Vladimir of Kiev | |
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Icon of Saint Vladimir, Novgorod, 16th century
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| Prince of Novgorod Grand Prince of Kiev |
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| Born | c. 958 |
| Died | 15 July 1015 |
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| 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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