Agatha of Vladimir

Saint Agatha of Vladimir, princess, died on 7 February 1238 at the capture of Vladimir on the Klyazma by the Mongol-⁠Tatars. She lived approximately from 1195 to 1238 and was the wife of the Grand Prince of Vladimir, Yuri Vsevolodovich, and the daughter of Vsevolod Svyatoslavich Chermny, Prince of Chernigov and Kiev, by his marriage to Maria, daughter of Casimir II, king of Poland.

She married Yuri, while his father was still living, on 10 April 1211, and had with him three sons and two daughters. She died together with her younger daughter Theodora when Vladimir fell to the Mongol-⁠Tatars. By some accounts they were burned alive in the Dormition cathedral; by others they were tortured in Batu's camp. The events of February 1238 are one of the unsolved riddles of history. The family of Yuri Vsevolodovich is among the few saints of whom no icon images or akathists have survived.

The Church canonized her as a blessed princess, in the synaxis of the saints of Vladimir, together with her daughter Theodora, with Christina Vladimirovna, wife of her son Vsevolod, and with Maria, wife of her son Mstislav. According to some reports, her bones and those of all the people of Vladimir burned with her are laid in a completely walled-⁠up crypt in the Dormition cathedral of Vladimir.