223 Archives - Contested Histories https://contestedhistories.org/tag/223/ Practical remedies to disputes over historical markers in public spaces Wed, 17 Dec 2025 14:51:23 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://contestedhistories.org/wp-content/uploads/cropped-CH_Symbol_Light_Bkg@10x-32x32.png 223 Archives - Contested Histories https://contestedhistories.org/tag/223/ 32 32 St. Vladimir Statue in Moscow https://contestedhistories.org/resources/case-studies/st-vladimir-statue-in-moscow?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=st-vladimir-statue-in-moscow Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://contestedhistories.org/resources// On November 4, 2016, a statue of Vladimir the Great or Saint Vladimir, as he is known in Russian, was unveiled by President Putin in Moscow during the millennium commemoration of Vladimir’s death (958–1015). Known as Volodymyr in Ukrainian, he is a major historical figure in both Russian and Ukrainian memory politics and understood, by […]

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]]> On November 4, 2016, a statue of Vladimir the Great or Saint Vladimir, as he is known in Russian, was unveiled by President Putin in Moscow during the millennium commemoration of Vladimir’s death (958–1015). Known as Volodymyr in Ukrainian, he is a major historical figure in both Russian and Ukrainian memory politics and understood, by each, to be the founder of their states. Upon its unveiling, Putin sought to emphasise Vladimir’s role as a uniter of the Slavic people, and implicitly placed Russia at its core. This enormous statue was evidently meant to rival the statue of the figure in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, which has been there since 1853. This case study examines the significance of this monument in the context of memory wars with Ukraine and as part of the Russian state’s discourse of a 1000-year-old Russia.

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