The frantic father interposed to save his child.

But the agents of Vlademer fell fiercely upon them, and they both were slain and offered in sacrifice.

Their names, Ivan and Theodore, are still preserved in the Russian church as the first Christian martyrs of Kief.
A few more years of violence and crime passed away, when Vlademer became the subject of that marvelous change which, nine hundred years before, had converted the persecuting Saul into the devoted apostle.
The circumstances of his conversion are very peculiar, and are very minutely related by Nestor.

Other recitals seem to give authenticity to the narrative.

For some time Vlademer had evidently been in much anxiety respecting the doom which awaited him beyond the grave.