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CONVERSION OF VLADIMIR AND HIS PEOPLE.
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claimed deserts, founded cities, promulgated laws, administered justice, encouraged learning and the arts, overthrew paganism, established Christianity, and called into Russia all the civilizing influences that the world, in his time, could offer.