To: 2ndDivisionVet
Vladimir, Prince of the Kievan Rus was baptized in Kiev
They were Christianized by Byzantine priests long before Muscovite Russians
18 posted on
04/04/2014 2:42:02 AM PDT by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: Jimmy Valentine
well, Moscow was founded in the 12th century as an outpost of Vladimir-Suzdal, which was a Kievan Rus city, so the inhabitants would have been descended from those who accepted Christianity in the 10th century
39 posted on
04/04/2014 3:59:36 PM PDT by
Cronos
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