Anna Porphyrogenita

962 - 1011  (48 years)

• Name	Anna Porphyrogenita  [1]
  Birth	13 Mar 962	Turkey   [1]
  	(Ancient Constantinople)
  Gender	Female
  Death	1011	Kyyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I8157	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Family	Prince of Novgorod and Grand Prince of Kiev Saint Vladimir Sviatoslavich, I,   b. 958, Kyyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine d. 15 Jul 1015, Kyiv, Ukraine (Age 57 years)
  Marriage	988	Kherson, Kherson, Ukraine   [1, 2, 3]
  	Anna's hand was considered such a prize that Vladimir became Christian just to marry her
  Family ID	F7525	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Marriage - 988 - Kherson, Kherson, Ukraine Death - 1011 - Kyyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• 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