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VLADIMIR , a See also:

town of See also:Russia, See also:capital of the See also:government of the same name known in See also:history as Vladimir-on-the-Klyazma, to distinguish it from Vladimir in See also:Volhynia. It is picturesquely situated on the Klyazma and Lybed, See also:rib m. by See also:rail E.N.E. of See also:Moscow. Pop. (1884) 18,420; (1900) 32,029. The See also:city is an archiepiscopal see of the Orthodox See also:Greek See also:church. The Lybed divides it into two parts. Extensive See also:cherry orchards occupy the surrounding slopes, and in each is a small See also:watch-See also:tower, with cords See also:drawn in all directions to be shaken by the watcher when birds alight. The kreml stands on a See also:hill and contains two very old cathedrals—the Uspenskiy (1150; restored in 1891), where all the princes of Vladimir have been buried, and the Dmitrievskiy (1197; restored in 1834-1835). Several churches date from the 12th See also:century, including one dedicated to the See also:Birth of See also:Christ, in which St See also:Alexander Nevski was buried. The " See also:Golden See also:Gate "—a triumphal gate surmounted by a church—was built by the See also:grand See also:duke Andrei Bogolyubskiy in 1158. Vladimir was founded in the 12th century. It first comes into See also:notice in 1151, when Andrei Bogolyubskiy secretly See also:left Vyshgorod—the domain of his See also:father in the principality of See also:Kiev —and migrated to the newly settled See also:land of Suzdal, where he became (1137) grand See also:prince of the principalities of Vladimir, Suzdal and Rostov.

In 1242 the principality was overrun by the See also:

Mongols under See also:Batu See also:Khan, and he and his successors asserted their See also:suzerainty over it until 1328. During this See also:period Vladimir became the See also:chief town of the See also:Russian settlements in the See also:basin of the Oka, and it disputed the superiority with the new principality of Moscow, to which it finally succumbed in 1328. In the 14th century it began to decay. VLADIMIR-VOLHYNSKIY, a town of Russia, in the government of Volhynia, 19 M. N.N.E. of the spot where the frontiers of Russia, See also:Poland and See also:Galicia meet and 300 M. W.N.W. of Kiev. Pop. (1885) 8752; (1897) 9695, three-fourths See also:Jews. Though not mentioned in the See also:annals before 988, Vladimir was probably in existence in the gth century under the name of Ladomir. In the loth century it was the capital of the principality of Volhynia. The See also:Tatars and the See also:Lithuanians destroyed it several times, but it always recovered, and only See also:fell into decay in the 17th century. It was finally annexed to Russia after the first See also:division of Poland (1772).

The ruins in and near the town include remains of a church supposed to have been built by Vladimir, grand duke of Kiev, in the loth-11th centuries, and of another built in 116o by his descendant Mstislay. This latter was apparently very well built, and its length exceeded that of the See also:

temple of St See also:Sophia at Kiev. The town contains a See also:good archaeological museum.

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