Show no gladness among them nearly a thousand years had passed since the birth of christ before the russian slavs were converted to christianity ti already the english the franks and the germans had been christians for some centuries when in prince vladimir sent envoys to t study the religions of the various neighboring nations whose representatives had been urging him to embrace their respective faiths nestor describes their report in amusing terms of the Mus s they reported there Is no gladness among them only sorrow and a great stench their religion is not a good one at constantinople they said we no longer knew whether we were in heaven or on earth nor such beauty and we know not how to tell of it |