could make an assumption that it is really a skeleton like me vasylkovych it is known that volodymyr vasylkovich tall, broad-shouldered, with a handsome face and curly hair, the prince had no equal in beauty, but his fate was tragic, he fell ill in the annals say that his lower jaw began to rot. it could have been iraq. it could also have been syphilis . it is possible that it was some kind of infectious disease. to stay can only be imagined as a prince who was used to attention and was liked by women, forced to hide his natural beauty under a bandage and rarely appeared in public, because in those days illness was treated as a punishment from heaven, when a person had physical defects, it was often associated with from sinfulness or this person or with some sin committed by the parents of this person, despite his terrible state of health, he helped people and gave money to those in need, he even gave the most precious thing to him, his grandmother's necklace, we know about such details from the galician-volyn chronicle, one of the main historical sources which tells about the history of kyivan

yaroslav the wise, prince vasylkovich of volyn, and now also vladimir the great. circumstances, we need to establish the origin of volodymyr the great, and without historical sources and skulls it is almost impossible to do this. we thought to leave this matter, but local historians from the small village of budyatichi in volyn they heard about our baskets from colleagues and invited us to come because according to their version volodymyr the great was born there i want to test this hypothesis and i am going there to meet with the historian olena leshko, she arranged a meeting in a very strange place, it is a rather unique place because that here was the territory of the mother of volodymyr the great, it was here, on this territory, that prince volodymyr was born, it was here that he lived in his youth. well, he ran, perhaps even with his bare feet, according to the legends of which there are already several for centuries from generation to generation, people give, for example, how the future baptizer learned to fight with swords here, he was helped by the wife of prince sviatoslav, who was the father of young princes, and