That is more water than the Nile, Congo, Ganges, Yangtze, St Lawrence, Mississippi, Mekong, Volga, Danube, and rhine rivers all combined by a long shot.
With Vladimir's conversion and marriage to the Byzantine emperor's sister, as well as continued trade along the Volga route, the relationship between the two civilizations deepened.
Suddenly the whole ended in a precipice, thickly overgrown with bushes, which overhung a plain about one and a-half versts in breadth along the banks of the Volga.
From one side could be seen the Volga with its steep banks; from the others wide meadows and gorges, and the whole seemed to melt into the distant blue hills.