✦ Time paradoxes · Closer than it seems
Baptism of Rus: 988; Peter the Great: 1672–1725; Gagarin's flight: 1961 — 684 years between the first two, 289 years between the last two (counting from birth).
Peter the Great lived closer in time to Gagarin's spaceflight than to the Christianization of Rus.
Who and what
- Christianization of Kievan Rus'988 · Kiev. Vladimir ties Rus' to the Orthodox Byzantine world
- Peter the Great1672–1725 · first Emperor of Russia
- Gagarin's flight1961 · Baikonur. The first human in space circles the Earth
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