Baptism of Russia. Detail of the monument to prince Vladimir the Saint on Vladimir's Hill in Kiev, Ukraine

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Prince Vladimir the Saint Equal-to-Apostles baptized Kievan Rus in 988 on the place where the monument by Russian sculptor Vasily Demut-Malinovsky was erected. Mikhail Bulgakov described this monument in his novel The White Guard.

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