Where wise men find beauty
Dec 27, 2019
2 minutes
Jason Goodwin
ONE thousand years ago, when the Byzantines ruled high, wide and imperial at Constantinople, the pagan Prince Vladimir of the Rus sent envoys to each of the lands that bordered his own, with instructions to investigate their religious arrangements and beliefs. They went to the country of the Muslim Bulgars—settled around the Volga—and journeyed to Germany and the country
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