Baptism of Russia and Vladimir St

For centuries he remembered the Kyiv Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavich the Russian people. He remembered the "affectionate", remembered the "Red Sun", singing the generosity of feasts and the brilliance of the heroic court. In less than six centuries after his reign, as the loud patronymic of the prince replaced in the popular memory of another, probably more speakers - "Vseslavich". Above all, the Russian Church glorified Vladimir on Earth, adding their power, but not with their own, by the will, by the will, to the name of the Baptist of Russia, not the nickname, but something more - the saint. The baptism of Russia is a turning act in its entire story, with which the ill -wishers agree with. And the name of Vladimir in fairness was forever connected with this greatest event. The list of Vladimir’s state victories, but his main victory was a victory over himself, over the past in himself. The book of the historian S. Alekseev will help the reader discover a new, more lively image of the Grand Duke