- » Vladimir I of Kiev. Answer ... Vladimir built a temple on Kiev's heights and placed there the statues of the six gods his Slavic subjects worshipped.
- Nevertheless, Sveinald is the Old East Norse cognate with the Slavic form as attested in the patronymic Old East Norse name of Vladimir: Valdamarr Sveinaldsson.
- In the later half of the 10th century, Veles or Volos was one of seven gods whose statues Vladimir I of Kiev had erected in his city.
- Prince Vladimir was prince of Kiev from 980 to 1015 and was responsible for Rus giving up the pagan religion for Christianity.
- Statue of Nostradamus. ... "Vladimir I". Encyclopedia Britannica , 11 Jul. 2024, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vladimir-I. Accessed 20 July 2024.
- The worship of idols, the sons of Vladimir. Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavich in Kiev erected on the hill a statue of Perun with a golden mustache and a silver head.
- Vladimir I Sviatoslavich or Volodymyr I Sviatoslavych, given the epithet "the Great", was Prince of Novgorod from 970 and Grand Prince of Kiev from 978 until his...
- The Russian authorities also courted a great deal of media attention in recent weeks by deciding to change the location of a massive statue of Prince Vladimir...
- He compelled his subjects to convert to Christianity in 988 in Kiev, now the capital of Ukraine, which has its own outsize Vladimir statue.
- ...recently approved by the Moscow City Parliament and backed by President Putin — to erect a giant statue of Vladimir the Great on a hill above Moscow.