Editing Primary Chronicle (section)

=== Archaeological findings ===
For centuries after the ''Chronicle’s'' creation, the legend's factuality was subject to extensive debate. Many historians, [[Antiquarian|antiquarians]], and archaeologists had attempted to determine the actual location of Vladimir's conversion by synthesizing textual evidence of the ''Chronicle'' with material evidence from Crimea. Their efforts became known in the realms of historical discipline as the “archaeology of the Korsun legend.”<ref name=":2">Mara Kozelsky. “Ruins into Relics: The Monument to Saint Vladimir on the Excavations of Chersonesos, 1827-57.” ''The Russian Review'', no. 4 (2004): 656-670.</ref> This search culminated under [[Archbishop]] Innokentii's diocesan administration (1848–57), when in the [[Chersonesus|ruins of Chersonesos]], archaeologists unearthed the foundations of three churches and determined that the one containing the richest findings was allegedly used for the baptism of the Kievan Prince.<ref>Romey, Kristin M., and Ludmila Grinenko. “Legacies of a Slavic Pompeii.” ''Archaeology'' 55, no. 6 (2002): 21.</ref> The unearthed material evidence proved sufficient to pinpoint the real location of the legend's events with reasonable accuracy.<ref name=":2" /> 

In the early 1860s, the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]] began construction of [[Chersonesus Cathedral|The Saint Vladimir Cathedral in Chersonesos]], which has been destroyed on three separate occasions after first being erected and was renovated each time thereafter. The cathedral last faced destruction during the [[October Revolution]] and was not restored until the [[Dissolution of the Soviet Union|fall of the Soviet Union]]. It has been argued that by honoring Vladimir the Great and his contribution to the Eastern Orthodoxy, the cathedral serves the purpose of validating Russia's historical ties with the Crimean Peninsula, the accounts of which are preserved by the ''Chronicle''.<ref name=":2" />