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Adalbert was a German monk at the Benedictine Monastary of Saint Maximinus in Trier. He was consecrated a bishop and in 961 he was sent to Russia. Princess Olga of Kiev had asked emperor Otto the Great to provide her with a missionary. Her son opposed her and took her crown from her as soon as Adalbert arrived in Russia. His mission companions were slain and Adalbert was barely able to escape. Kievan Rus subsequently accepted conversion from ConstantinopleConstantinople (Roman name: Constantinopolis; Greek: Konstantinoupolis or ) is the former name of the city of Istanbul in Turkey. Its original name was Byzantium ( Greek: Byzantion or Bυζαντιο&nu pronounced roughly B.

Adalbert subsequently traveled to MainzMainz (French Mayence is a city in Germany, which is the capital of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Introduction Mainz is located on the left bank of the river Rhine, opposite the confluence of the Main river with the Rhine. Population (, where he became abbot of Weissenburg in Alsace. Later he became bishop of MagdeburgMagdeburg the capital city of the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, lies on the Elbe river. As of 2004 it had a population of 226,200. History Magdeburg was one of the most important medieval cities of Germany. Emperor Otto I lived during most of his, an imperial city in SaxonyState Service Flag Civil Flag Statistics Capital: Dresden Area:18,338 km² Inhabitants:4,600,000 2000 pop. density:251 inh. km² Homepage: ISO 3166-2:DE-SN Politics Minister-President: Georg Milbradt ( CDU) Ruling party: CDU/ SPD Map With an area of 18,400.

The archbishoprics of HamburgHamburg is Germany's second largest city (after Berlin) and its principal port. The official name Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg recalls its membership in the mediaeval Hanseatic League and the fact that Hamburg is a city state and one of Germany's sixteen and Bremen had been created with the intent that they would act as bases for missionary activity in Northern and Eastern Europe. The archbishopric of Magdeburg was now designated to provide missionary programs for the Eastern European Slavs. Adalbert also established dioceses at Nauemburg, Meissen in Lausitz, Merseburg, Brandenburg, Havelberg and Poznan in Poland. A student in Adalbert's time who went on to do important work among the Slavs was Voitech of Prague, later canonized as Saint Adalbert of Prague.