Timeline July 1015

Events in July 1015 3

• 958 – 1015 Vladimir the Great (958-1015) Died 15 July 1015, aged 57 Vladimir I, Grand Prince of Kiev, died at his estate at Berestove near Kiev. He had ruled Kievan Rus since 980 and is remembered for adopting Christianity from Byzantium in 988, an event that shaped the religious and cultural trajectory of Rus for centuries. His death triggered a violent succession struggle among his sons.
• 1015 Sviatopolk seizes the throne of Kiev Succession crisis follows the death of Vladimir the Great Following the death of his father Vladimir the Great, Sviatopolk I moved quickly to seize the throne of Kiev and eliminate rival claimants among his half-brothers. His rule began a bloody succession war among Vladimir's sons that lasted several years. Sviatopolk became known to later chroniclers as "the Accursed" for his role in the killings that followed.
• 1015 Murder of Princes Boris and Gleb Sons of Vladimir the Great killed in the Kievan succession war Prince Boris of Rostov was ambushed and killed on the orders of his half-brother Sviatopolk, who sought to eliminate rivals to the throne of Kiev. His brother Gleb of Murom was murdered soon after near Smolensk. Both were later canonized as the first native saints of the Russian Orthodox Church.