Boris Vasilkovich

The son of Prince Vasilk Konstantinovich , was born on July 24, 1231 in the city of Rostov, and under the same year is mentioned among those who were on the consecration of the church of St. August 14 Virgin in Rostov.

Upon the death of his father (1238), he and his younger brother Gleb divided, according to the then abdominal separate possession, between himself the Rostov principality in such a way that Rostov took Boris, and Beloozero took Gleb, although de facto both of them, in their infancy, lived in Rostov under the mother of Princess Marya Mikhailovna , who ruled the entire principality.

In 1244, Boris, together with his uncle Vladimir Konstantinovich , prince of Uglitsky, and other princes, traveled to the Horde "about his homeland," that is, to bother the khan about asserting himself and his younger brother Gleb as hereditary inheritance; Batu "judged them once in their own homeland, and [they] came with honor to their land." At the end of 1245, Boris accompanied his grandfather Mikhail Vsevolodovich , Prince of Chernigov, to the Horde and there he persuaded him to do “the will of the Tsar” - to bow to “the bush, the sun and idols” - but to no avail. After the martyrdom of his grandfather, Prince Boris was sent by Batu to his son Sartak , who, "having looked, let him go home."

In 1248, Prince Boris married Maria, daughter of Prince of Murom, Yaroslav Yurievich . In the winter of the following year, he and his mother, younger brother and Prince Alexander Nevsky accompanied the body of Prince Yaroslavsky Vasily Vsevolodovich to Vladimir from Yaroslavl.

From 1250, the trips of Prince Boris to the Horde begin again; in the same year he was with Khan Sartak, who received him with honor. After 1252, Prince Boris fraternized with the Tatar prince Dair Kaydagul, who had fled from the Horde and lived in Rostov (later Saint Peter Ordynsky ), and in 1256 and the previous year he presented gifts to the close khan, Ulavchiy , whom Khan Berke instructed to conduct affairs of Russia. The years 1257 and 1258 abound in the trips of Prince Boris and other princes to the Horde to the same Ulavchiy; the most plausible explanation for these frequent trips should be considered Karamzin ’s hunch that the princes of North-Eastern Russia , “Knowing the Tatars' intention to impose Northern Russia, like the Kiev and Chernigov princes, a certain tribute by the number of people, wanted to ward off this burden, but in vain: after “Tatar officials in the regions of Suzdal , Ryazan , Murom came for them and considered the inhabitants.”

In 1259, Prince Boris, together with his brother Gleb and his mother, received Prince Alexander Nevsky in Rostov on Wednesday Wednesday, and in 1261 he and Alexander Nevsky appointed Archimandrite Ignatius to assist Rostov's bishop Kirill . In 1274, Prince Boris married his eldest son Dmitry .

In 1277, Prince Boris arrived in the Horde to help Khan Mengu-Timur in his campaign against the Caucasian Yasses ( Alans ), but, immediately after arriving in the Horde, he became ill and, expecting his death, wanted to take monastic rank, but his wife, hoping on a successful outcome of the disease, dissuaded him from this intention. Prince Boris died in the Horde on September 16 of that year; his body was transported by his wife and son Dmitry to Rostov and on November 13 of the same 1277 was buried in the Cathedral of the Assumption Church , on the right side.

Prince Boris was a great lover of books, and, undoubtedly, he is the “prince chronicler” who in the so-called Suzdal and Tver chronicles (the disappeared Rostov Chronicle ) describes events related mainly to the Rostov land. Of the facts that were in his reign in Rostov, the annals notes, in addition to the census of 1257, the expulsion of the Tatars from Rostov in 1262.

Wife from 1248 - Princess Maria Yaroslavna (1232-1297), daughter of Prince of Murom Yaroslav Yuryevich .

Children:

Dimitri Borisovich (September 11, 1253–1294) - Prince of Rostov (1278–1286, 1288–1294), Prince Uglitsky (1286–1288);

Konstantin Borisovich (July 30, 1255-1307) - Prince of Rostov (1278-1288, 1294-1307), Prince Uglitsky (1288-1294);

Vasily Borisovich (born April 16, 1268 - died in childhood).

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• Rudakov V.E. Boris Vasilkovich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.