St. Gleb

Sv. Gleb (knee 5) from the family of Rurik. Son St.. Vladimir Svyatoslavich. Kn. Murom.

+ 1015 g.

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In the chronicle, the mother Hleb was a certain "bolgarynya". But Solovyov, followed Tatishchev, believes that he, like Boris, the son of the Byzantine princess Anna. It seems, Vladimir had a weakness for his younger "regal" children, dividing them among his twelve sons. This played a fatal role in their fate, when in 1015, Vladimir suddenly died, and the Kiev throne was seized by his stepson Sviatopolk. First, he had sent murderers to Boris, and then to Gleb. Chronicler reports that Hleb, he heard about the death of his father, rushed to Kiev. Down from Smolensk, he sailed on a boat on the Dnieper. If there was a small detachment. We Smyadyni it overtook Ambassador of Yaroslav the Wise of Novgorod. The Ambassador said: "Do not swim more. Your brother Boris killed Svyatopolk ". Hearing this, Hleb began to weep and pray, and in the meantime arrived, sent Svyatopolk killers, which he sent to intercept Hleb on the road. Imperceptibly stole up to the prince's ship, the killers seized him and disarmed him of all his servants. One of the killers by name Goryaser was forcing them so that they themselves killed their prince. Then cook Gleb named Torchin, taking out a knife, approached Gleb and stabbed him as a lamb. The corpse of the young prince was thrown on the shore, between the two decks. Only a few years later his body was brought to Vyshgorod and buried in the church of. Basil beside his brother, Boris.

All the monarchs of the world. Russia. 600 brief biographies. Konstantin Ryzhov. Moscow, 1999.


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Gleb (? -1015) - Son of Grand. kn. Russia Vladimir Svyatoslavich. Ok. 987 - 989 father gave Gleb in holding land Murom. V. N. Tatishchev said that Moore belonged to the Rostov knyazhecmvu, t. e. to ownership Boris Vladimirovich. But as Boris always lived with his father in Kiev, Gleb was like a viceroy in the North-East. Russia while his father and brother. Gleb was treacherously killed stepbrother Svyatopolk Yaropolchichem Damned. In 1071, along with Boris, was reckoned Pravoslav. Church of the saints.