The chronicle describes this event as follows: “When Vladimir returned to Kiev, he ordered that the idols be overturned, some of them be cut to pieces, others burned and that Peroun be tied to a horse’s tail and dragged around the city. In the end, he let it be thrown into the Dnieper River. The other day Vladimir and the Queen’s Byzantine priests appeared above the Dnieper River, where an innumerable multitude had gathered. They descended into water and remained standing there, some to the neck, others to the breast, the youth standing in water by the riverside likewise to their breast, and still others holding their children. The priests were standing there praying, and one could see and feel joy coming from heaven and spreading here on earth over the salvation of so many souls.”