Boris Vladimirovich (Prince of Rostov)

According to the initial Kiev annals , he was born from a Bulgarian and in the second division of lands received Rostov as an inheritance, which his elder brother Yaroslav owned before. Previously, as can be seen from the additions to some lists of chronicles that were in the hands of V. N. Tatishchev , Boris was given by Moore . The second section occurred around 994 - 996 years. From this time until 1015 in the annals of Boris there is no mention. ^[7]

Murder, canonization and veneration in Russia

In 1015, his father, Vladimir Svyatoslavich , fell ill, and Boris was called up to Kiev . Soon after his arrival it became known about the invasion of the Pechenegs , and his father sent him with a squad to repel them. Boris did not meet the Pechenegs anywhere and, returning back, stopped on the Alta River. Here he learned about the death of his father and the occupation of the grand duke’s table by his half brother Svyatopolk . The team offered to go to Kiev and seize the throne, but Boris did not want to violate the sanctity of the clan relations and rejected this offer with indignation, as a result of which his father's warriors left him and he remained with his youths alone ^[7] .

Meanwhile, Svyatopolk, who, notifying Boris of his father’s death, proposed to be with him in love and increase his inheritance , sent Putsha and the Vyshegorodsky boyars to kill his brother: sympathy for Boris’s people and squads made him a dangerous rival. Putsha and his comrades came to Alta, to the tent of Boris, at night on July 24 (30) ; Hearing the singing of psalms coming from the tent, Putsha decided to wait for Boris to go to sleep. Only the last one, doubly saddened by both the death of his father and rumors of his brother’s evil intent, ended the prayer and lay down, as the killers broke in and speared pierced Boris and his servant Hungarian George, who was trying to protect the master with his own body. Still breathing Boris, the killers wrapped in a tent cloth and drove. Svyatopolk, learning that he was still alive, sent two Varangians to kill him, which they did, piercing him with a sword in his heart. Boris’s body was secretly brought to Vyshgorod and buried there in the church of St. Basil. Boris was about 25 years old ^[7] .

Later, he, along with his brother Gleb, was canonized.

Debate on the veracity of the generally accepted version

In 1834, a professor at St. Petersburg University Sankovsky , translating into Russian the “The Amund Saga ” ^[8] , discovers that the Varangian Eymund, along with his squad, was hired by Yaroslav the Wise . The saga tells how the king Yarisleif (Yaroslav) fights with the king Burisleif, and in the saga of Burisleif the Vikings take their lives by order of Yarisleif. Some researchers suggest Boris under the name of Burisleif, others - the Polish king Boleslav , whom the saga confuses with his ally Svyatopolk.

Then, some researchers ^{[9] [10]} supported the hypothesis on the basis of the Eymund saga that the death of Boris was the “handiwork” of the Vikings, sent by Yaroslav the Wise in 1017 , given that, according to the annals, both Yaroslav and Bryachislav and Mstislav refused recognize Svyatopolk as the rightful prince in Kiev. Only two brothers - Boris and Gleb - declared their fidelity to the new Kiev prince and pledged to "honor him as their father," and it would be very strange for Svyatopolk to kill his allies. To date, this hypothesis has both its supporters and opponents.

Also, historians and historians, starting with S. M. Solovyov, suggest that the story of the death of Boris and Gleb is clearly inserted in the " Tale of Bygone Years " later, otherwise the chronicler would not repeat again about the beginning of Svyatopolk’s reign in Kiev.

• In the annals of 1175, Boris’s sword was mentioned, which belonged to Andrei Bogolyubsky at that time ^[7] .
• In 2011, during a study of the remains of a medieval burial ground, a battle ax with traces of silver inlay was found to be severely damaged by corrosion near the village of Shekshovo . During restoration, for the first time for such finds, signs of the Rurikovich were discovered ^[11] . After a detailed study of the find, it was suggested that the hatchet belonged to the retinue of Boris Vladimirovich ^[12] .

• " Yaroslav the Wise " ( 1981 ; USSR ) director Grigory Kokhan , in the role of Boris Oleg Drach
• “ Saga of the ancient Bulgars. Ladder of Vladimir the Red Sun ”(2004) - the film considers the version that the brothers Boris and Gleb were the sons of Vladimir from the“ Bulgarian ”- the sister of the emir of the Volga Bulgaria ; as Boris Ilya Slavutsky

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