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St. Basil's Cathedral

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St. Basil's Cathedral
St. Basil's Cathedral
St. Basil's Cathedral
St. Basil's Cathedral
St. Basil's Cathedral
St. Basil's Cathedral
St. Basil's Cathedral
St. Basil's Cathedral
St. Basil's Cathedral
St. Basil's Cathedral
St. Basil's Cathedral
St. Basil's Cathedral
St. Basil's Cathedral
St. Basil's Cathedral
St. Basil's Cathedral
Phone:
+7 472 235-36-20

Hours:
Sunday7am - 8pm
Monday7am - 8pm
Tuesday7am - 8pm
Wednesday7am - 8pm
Thursday7am - 8pm
Friday7am - 8pm
Saturday7am - 8pm


Vladimir the Great ; 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 tribes and Eastern nomads. Originally a follower of Slavic paganism, Vladimir converted to Christianity in 988 and Christianized the Kievan Rus'.
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