Biography Boris and Gleb

Boris and Gleb (died 1015) – the sons of Grand Prince Vladimir of Kiev Svyatoslav, killed in 1015 on the orders of the prince. Svatopluk during internal successor, Vladimir due to a princely throne. On the life and work of B. and H., and even their attitude toward Christianity did not know for certain. In the 2 nd half of 11. among excel in Kievan Rus' military-commercial elite, princes and squads become delineate the desire to have their own class-national saints. The monks of the Kiev-Pechersk Monastery in the 2 nd half of 11. begin to engage in intensified search of the saints. B., and G. was the first experience of this kind. The first generations of B. and H. drafted grand court confessor of James, written by the prevailing opinion, the 70-ies. 11. The author used the Byzantine Life. Honoring B. and G. extended the first time is very sluggish. Building on their alleged tomb in Vyshgorod relatively rare in Russia, then a stone church was brought to the large number of worshipers, there were rumors of miracles were the new, expanded Life. As saints, made prince druzhina environment, B. and G. Steel, for the most part, patrons warlike affairs, and then statehood. The victims include three princes Svatopluk (BA, G. and Svyatoslav). In the worship of only two of them manifested in the mapping and ancient Russian Christianity, going through the Byzantine Empire, the cult of sacred dvoits: 2 brothers or friends – ascetics, martyrs, and the earlier – the gods. Lit.: Golubinsky, E., History of the Russian Church, Volume I, Part I, M., 1880. On the general conditions of the Christianization of ancient Russia, see MH Pokrovsky, Russian history from ancient times, so I; his, Essays on the history of Russian culture, GIZ, Moscow, 1925. S. Ursynovich.