Tauric Chersonesos, Greek Χερσονασος (Chersones, Khersones, Korsun, Russian: Херсонес) was the Greek settlement founded approximately 2500 years ago in the southwestern part of Crimean (Taurian) Peninsula. It was there that Vladimir the Great was baptized, paving the way to the christianization of Kievan Rus. Ancient ruins are presently located in the suburbs of Sevastopol.
Cherson's struggle for independence always troubled the central government, which is why in 841 the city was made the center of a theme - a military administrative unit headed by a strategus appointed from Constantinople.
The author of the Lives, himself probably a bishop of Cherson, attempted to underscore the high position of the local church within the ecclesiastical hierarchy and to connect the history of the city with the most outstanding and prestigious events of the history of Byzantium.
Cherson was initially destroyed in the third quarter of the 13th century, possibly by Khan Nogay in 1278.
The Tauric Chersonesos (Greek Χερσόνησος, also Chersones, Khersones, Korsun, Russian and Ukrainian: Херсонес; see also List of traditional Greek place names) was a site of Greek settlements founded approximately 2500 years ago in the southwestern part of the Crimean (or "Taurian" as it was then known) Peninsula.
In the late 2nd century BC Chersones became a dependency of the Bosporan kingdom.
It was subject to Rome from the middle of the 1st century BC until the 370s AD, when it was captured by the Huns.
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