The use of articles with personal names

Yaroslav ___ Wise was ___ Grand prinse of ___ Novgorod and __ Kiev.

__ Yaroslav's Christian name was ___ George (__ Yuri) after __ Saint George.

Yaroslav __ Wise was a son of __ Vladimir __ Great, __ first Christian Prince of __Novgorod.

Astrakhan is one of ___ oldest Russian towns.

___ Tsar was getting ready for a march to Persia and that was why he was personally interested in the fortification of the southern outpost of Russia

At the beginning of ___ 12th century Astrakhan was a well-known cultural centre with rich musical and theatrical traditions. 

In 1556, the khanate was conquered by Ivan ___ Terrible, who had a new fortress, or kremlin, built on a steep hill overlooking the Volga in 1558.

For seventeen months in 1670–1671, Astrakhan was held by ___ Stenka Razin and his Cossacks. 

Early in the following century, Peter __Great constructed a shipyard here and made Astrakhan the base for his hostilities against Persia, and later in the same century Catherine __ Great accorded the city important industrial privileges.

The city rebelled against __ Tsar once again in 1705, when it was held by the Cossacks under __ Kondraty Bulavin.