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Vladimir Vasilkovich was a son of Vasilko Romanovich, prince of Volhynia, now part of Ukraine. He succeeded his father when the latter died in 1269, and was famous for numerous construction and reconstructions of town fortifications in Volhynia. In the 1270s – 1280 he founded a castle with the Tower of Kamyanets and the town of Kamyanets, now in Belarus, and a castle in Berestye, now Brest, Belarus, died in 1289 in Luboml in Ukraine. Summing up his life, the old chronicle presented him as a booklover and philosopher, that had not been in the whole world before and would never be in the future.
