Family: Prince of Novgorod and Grand Prince of Kiev Saint Vladimir Sviatoslavich, I / Anna Porphyrogenita (F7525)

• Male Prince of Novgorod and Grand Prince of Kiev Saint Vladimir Sviatoslavich, I

  
  

  Birth	958	Kyyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine
  Death	15 Jul 1015	Kyiv, Ukraine
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  Marriage	988  [1, 2, 3]	Kherson, Kherson, Ukraine  [1, 2, 3]
  Other Spouse	Rogneida 'Anastasia' de Polotsk | F7526
  Marriage	980
  Father	Sviatoslav of Kiev, I | F2826 Group Sheet
  Mother	Malusha Lubech | F2826 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Anna Porphyrogenita

  
  

  Birth	13 Mar 962	Turkey
  Death	1011	Kyyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine
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• Notes

  Married: Anna's hand was considered such a prize that Vladimir became Christian just to marry her

  
  

• Sources

  [S54] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT : Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online. Record for Anna Porphyrogenita [S54] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT : Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online. Record for Vladimir-I (basilus;the Saint) Kiev [S1950] Wikipedia: Vladimir the Great, (Name: Wikipedia;), Vladimir the Great. Vladimir I Sviatoslavich or Volodymyr I Sviatoslavych[6] (Old East Slavic: Володимѣръ Свѧтославичь, Volodiměrъ Svętoslavičь;[a][b] c. 958 – 15 July 1015), nicknamed the Great,[8] was Prince of Novgorod, Grand Prince of Kiev, and ruler of Kievan Rus' from 980 to 1015. . . . The Primary Chronicle reports that in the year 987, after consultation with his boyars, Vladimir the Great sent envoys to study the religions of the various neighboring nations whose representatives had been urging him to embrace their respective faiths. The result is described by the chronicler Nestor. He reported that Islam was undesirable due to its prohibition of alcoholic beverages and pork.[28] Vladimir remarked on the occasion: "Drinking is the joy of all Rus'. We cannot exist without that pleasure."[28] Ukrainian and Russian sources also describe Vladimir consulting with Jewish envoys and questioning them about their religion, but ultimately rejecting it as well, saying that their loss of Jerusalem was evidence that they had been abandoned by God. His emissaries also visited pre-schism Latin Church and Eastern Christian missionaries.[citation needed] Ultimately Vladimir settled on Eastern Christianity. In the churches of the Germans his emissaries saw no beauty; but at Constantinople, where the full festival ritual of the Byzantine Church was set in motion to impress them, they found their ideal: "We no longer knew whether we were in heaven or on earth", they reported, describing a majestic Divine Liturgy in Hagia Sophia, "nor such beauty, and we know not how to tell of it." Vladimir was impressed by this account of his envoys. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_the_Great