Vladimir
Vladimir names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Vladimir the capital of the provof Vladimir
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
the capital of the provof Vladimir, is on the ince Kliasma, 110 miles E. N. E. of Moscow by rail, has 28 churches, two monasteries, handsome government buildings, etc., and manufactures of icons. Pop. about 45,000. VLADIMIR I., a Czar of Russia, commonly called VLADIMIR THE GREAT, or SAINT VLADIMIR; son of the Grand-Duke Sviatoplav by a woman of low condition, and great-grandson of Rurik. His father assigned to him the government of Novgorod, dividing the rest of the empire between his two legitimate sons, Jaropalk and Oleg. In 977 Jaropalk quarrelled with Oleg and killed him, and Vladimir would probably have met the same fate had he not fled to the Varangians. Two years later he returned with an army, overcame Jaropalk, and remained sole master of the empire, having his capital at Kiev. He then set himself both to extend and consolidate his dominions, which were little better than a collection of tributary states, scarcely subject to any real control. He enlarged his boundaries from the Black Sea to the Baltic, and appears to have had an intention of welding his empire into a homogeneous mass through the ag agency of a common religion, in which he tried to combine the Slavonian and the Finnish superstitions. In 988, however, an event occurred which altered his schemes entirely. He had already five wives and almost 1,000 concubines, but while besieging the Christian city of Cherson, in the Crimea, he conceived the idea of demanding the hand of Anna, the sister of the Byzantine Emperors Constantine and Basilios. Through the agency of this princess, known in history as Anna Romanovna, he was converted to Christianity. His subjects, who had already been prepared ared for Christianity by intercourse with the Greeks, followed his example. The Scriptures had already been translated into Slavonic by Cyrillus and Methodius, and Russia soon became Christian a country. Vladimir was then as enthusiastic in his Christian virtues as he had formerly been in his heathen vices. He died in Beresyx in 1015 at a great age, and divided his empire among his 12 sons. The Russian Church canonized him, and gave him a rank equal to that of the Apostles, and the famous "Vladimir order" was founded in his honor by the Empress Catherine II. in 1782. VLADIMIR II., called MONOMACHUS, after his maternal grandfather, the Emperor Constantine Monomachus, was born in 1052, and succeeded to the empire in 1113, in opposition to the ordinary Slavonic rules of inheritance. Though not free from some of the barbarisms of his age, he did much for Russia by the establishment and enforcement of just laws, and the consolidation of the internal affairs of the empire. He was married to Gida, daughter of King Harold of England, and his granddaughters married the kings of Norway and Denmark, so that the famous Valdemar of Denmark, probably so named in his honor, was his great-grandson. He died was established in New York, which in Kiev, May 19, 1126, leaving behind sought to make useful members of him a long "testament" "testament" full of instructions to his descendants, which presents a curious picture of contemporary manners and opinions.
Vladimir a province of Russia
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a province of Russia, surrounded by Jaroslav, Kostroma, Nijni Novgorod, Riazan, Moscow, and Tver; area, 18,862 square miles. The surface consists of level and undulating plains, and the soil is fertile. About 32 per cent. is covered with pine forests. The whole province is drained by the system of the Oka, which flows for 82 miles through Vladimir, and receives from the left the Kliasma, with its navigable tributary, the Tesa. The largest lake is Plechejevo, which receives the Trubesh, and sends the Great Nerl to the Volga. The principal crops raised are buckwheat, rye, oats, potatoes, pulse, flax, cherries, and onions. In industrial activity, Vladimir ranked next to Moscow and Petrograd before the World War. Its manufactures included paper, crystal, glass, chemicals, brandy, cotton, linen, and woolen fabrics, ics, and metal wares, chiefly knives, chisels, locks, gimlets and reaping hooks. The forests yielded timber, pitch, and tar. A special industry of Vladimir was the manufacture of icons. Pop. about 1,800,000.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote this in 1921 Vladimir was a town of 45,000 whose speciality was making icons; the Soviet state suppressed that trade, and the modern city of roughly 350,000 lives instead on machine-building, chemicals and tourism, its twelfth-century Dormition and St Demetrius cathedrals inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage in 1992. The province Collier's described was abolished in 1929 and only re-created, with different borders, as Vladimir Oblast in 1944. Calling Vladimir I a "Czar" is an anachronism no historian would now use — the title dates from Ivan IV in 1547, and he is styled Grand Prince of Kiev. His memory is now actively contested between Russia and Ukraine: Moscow unveiled a large statue of him beside the Kremlin in 2016, while Kyiv counts him as founder of the Ukrainian church.
Written for this edition, 2026.