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Vladimir I, the Great or the Saint, the first Christian sovereign of Russia, ruled from 980 to 1015. He returned to Kievafter his baptism at Kherson in 988, and commanded his subjects to be baptized.
John Clark Ridpath, Ridpath's History of the World, Vol. II (New York: Merrill & Baker, 1897) 658.
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