Saint Vladimir the Great, the Baptizer of the Kievan Rus

Russian Post released a stamp of Saint Vladimir the Great, the Baptizer of the Kievan Rus on 25th September 2015.

Vladimir Sviatoslavich the Great was a prince of Novgorod and grand prince of Kiev.He was an outstanding political figure and the one who Christianized the Kievan Rus’. He was canonized as equal to the apostles, the natal day in Russian Orthodoxy is July 15 (28).