The ceremony of baptism was immediately performed in the church of St.Basil, in the city of Cherson, and then, at the same hour, the marriage rites with the princess were solemnized.

Vlademer ordered a large church to be built at Cherson in memory of his visit.

He then returned to Kief, taking with him some preachers of distinction; a communion service wrought in the most graceful proportions of Grecian art, and several exquisite specimens of statuary and sculpture, to inspire his subjects with a love for the beautiful.
He accepted the Christian teachers as his guides, and devoted himself with extraordinary zeal to the work of persuading all his subjects to renounce their idol-worship and accept Christianity.

Every measure was adopted to throw contempt upon paganism.

The idols were collected and burned in huge bonfires.