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 1 Text|                        987 (6495): Vladimir summoned together his vassals
 2 Text|     returned to their own country. Vladimir then instructed them to
 3 Text|            vassals and the elders. Vladimir then announced the return
 4 Text|         wiser than all other men." Vladimir then inquired where they
 5 Text|         had passed, in 988 (6496), Vladimir marched with an armed force
 6 Text|     barricaded themselves therein. Vladimir halted at the farther side
 7 Text|       resisted energetically while Vladimir besieged the town. Eventually,
 8 Text|         they became exhausted, and Vladimir warned them that if they
 9 Text|        failed to heed this threat, Vladimir marshalled his troops and
10 Text|     soldiers kept on building, and Vladimir persisted. Then a man of
11 Text|            and cut them off." When Vladimir received this information,
12 Text|           thirst, and surrendered.~Vladimir and his retinue entered
13 Text|          sister in marriage." When Vladimir learned their response,
14 Text|         match. They then requested Vladimir to submit to baptism before
15 Text|           their sister to him, but Vladimir desired that the princess
16 Text|          palace.~By divine agency, Vladimir was suffering at that moment
17 Text|           could not be cured. When Vladimir heard her message, he said, "
18 Text|   announcing the tidings, baptised Vladimir, and as the bishop laid
19 Text| experiencing this miraculous cure, Vladimir glorified God, saying, "
20 Text|           them were also baptised.~Vladimir was baptised in the Church
21 Text|   Khersonians trade. The palace of Vladimir stands beside this church
22 Text|          altar. After his baptism, Vladimir took the princess in marriage.
23 Text|     mention other places.~Hereupon Vladimir took the princess and Anastasius
24 Text|       standing at the present day. Vladimir also found and appropriated
25 Text|        cast it into the Dnepr. But Vladimir had given this injunction: "
26 Text|          this very day.~Thereafter Vladimir sent heralds throughout
27 Text|    returned each to his own abode. Vladimir, rejoicing that he and his