--- title: Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the Mongols — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the Mongols», a lesson of the history course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Around 988 Prince Volodymyr of Kyiv took Christianity from Byzantium; Danylo says he dunked everyone in the Dnipro in one day --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/42-volodymyr-yaroslav-the-wise-and-the-mongols/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the M… # Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the Mongols Lesson 42 of the history course of Mova's primary school: 14 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/42-volodymyr-yaroslav-the-wise-and-the-mongols/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/42-volodymyr-yaroslav-the-wise-and-the-mongols/0/) — Around 988 Prince Volodymyr of Kyiv took Christianity from Byzantium; Danylo says he dunked everyone in the Dnipro in one day, but a whole land took generations to change, the way a school takes years to change its habits, not one assembly. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/42-volodymyr-yaroslav-the-wise-and-the-mongols/1/) — Volodymyr was not a saint from the start: as a young pagan prince he fought his own brothers for the throne, and only later built churches and schools; history keeps both halves of a life. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/42-volodymyr-yaroslav-the-wise-and-the-mongols/2/) — His son Yaroslav the Wise built Saint Sophia, gathered books, began the law code Ruska Pravda and married his daughters to kings, so Anna of Kyiv became Queen of France; Danylo calls him «father-in-law of all Europe», which is too much, but three royal marriages are still remarkable. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/42-volodymyr-yaroslav-the-wise-and-the-mongols/3/) — After Yaroslav his heirs quarrelled and Rus broke into rival princedoms, and in 1240 the Mongols took Kyiv; the teacher said it was «wiped off the map», but Kyiv survived as a smaller town, and in the west the kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia carried on. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/42-volodymyr-yaroslav-the-wise-and-the-mongols/5/) — Prince Volodymyr accepted Christianity from Byzantium around 988; the chronicle tells of a mass baptism of Kyivans in the river, and the new faith then spread slowly over generations, mixing with old beliefs. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/42-volodymyr-yaroslav-the-wise-and-the-mongols/6/) — The chronicle says Volodymyr heard envoys of Islam, Judaism and Western and Byzantine Christianity, and his envoys praised Constantinople's churches; the chronicle even jokes that he turned Islam down because it forbade drinking; the real reasons were mostly politics, trade and a marriage alliance with Byzantium. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/42-volodymyr-yaroslav-the-wise-and-the-mongols/7/) — Before his baptism Volodymyr was a fierce pagan prince who fought his brothers for the throne; afterwards he built churches and schools, and the Church later made him a saint. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/42-volodymyr-yaroslav-the-wise-and-the-mongols/8/) — Yaroslav the Wise ruled from 1019 to 1054, built Saint Sophia and gathered books; his daughters married kings: Anna to Henry I of France, Elisabeth to Harald of Norway and Anastasia to Andrew I of Hungary. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/42-volodymyr-yaroslav-the-wise-and-the-mongols/9/) — Anna Yaroslavna became Queen of France in 1051; a document survives with her signature in Cyrillic letters, but there is no proof that her husband could not read. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/42-volodymyr-yaroslav-the-wise-and-the-mongols/10/) — The Ruska Pravda, begun under Yaroslav, is one of the earliest written law codes of the eastern Slavs; it replaced blood revenge with fines for many crimes, though Roman and Anglo-Saxon laws were older. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/42-volodymyr-yaroslav-the-wise-and-the-mongols/11/) — After Yaroslav died, his sons and grandsons fought each other and Rus broke into rival princedoms; Kyiv was even sacked (robbed and burned) by other Rus princes in 1169. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/42-volodymyr-yaroslav-the-wise-and-the-mongols/12/) — In December 1240 the Mongol army under Batu took Kyiv after a siege as part of a huge campaign across eastern Europe; much of the city was ruined, but it survived as a smaller town. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/42-volodymyr-yaroslav-the-wise-and-the-mongols/13/) — In western Ukraine the Principality of Galicia-Volhynia was strong in the 13th century; Prince Danylo of Halych received a royal crown from a papal envoy (a messenger of the Pope) in 1253, and Lviv was named after his son Lev, though Danylo still had to accept the Mongols as his overlords (masters). - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/42-volodymyr-yaroslav-the-wise-and-the-mongols/15/) — The Mongol empire was destructive in its conquests, but afterwards it kept trade routes safe, ran a postal system and allowed many religions. - ← previous: [Kyiv's beginnings and Kyivan Rus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/41-kyivs-beginnings-and-kyivan-rus/) - next →: [Lithuanian and Polish times, the first Cossacks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/43-lithuanian-and-polish-times-the-first-cossacks/) - ↑ back to [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/)