The Mezhyhirskyi Monastery, founded in 988, becomes, as a result of Vladimir’s conversion to Christianity, one of the first monasteries established in the East Slavic state of Kievan Rus'.
The monastery, according to records analyzed by bibliologist Yevgeniy Bolkhovitinov from the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, is founded by the first Metropolitan of Kiev, Michael, along with Greek monks arriving from Constantinople’s Empire.
