About the book: 1995 / Golden-Ship.ru 2014 Troparion, tone 4. Thou art like a merchant seeking good beads, / glorious sovereign Vladimir, / at the height of the table of the gray mother of the city, / God-saved Kiev: / testing and sending to the Royal City / to take away the Orthodox faith, / you have found a priceless pearl - Christ ́, / who chose you like the second Paul, / and shook off blindness into the holy font, / spiritual, together and bodily. / We also celebrate your success, / your people, / pray to be saved as an Orthodox Christian. Kontakion, tone 8. Having become like the great Apostle Paul, in gray hairs, the all-glorious Vladimir, / as I have given up my childish wisdom, even about idols, / like a perfect man, You were adorned with scarlet at Divine Baptism, / and now, standing before the Savior Christ in joy, / pray to be saved by an Orthodox Christian.