Boris of Turov

Holy Right-⁠believing Prince Boris of Turov was the son of Yuri Dolgoruky, the grandson of Vladimir Monomakh and the younger brother of the right-⁠believing and Christ-⁠loving Andrei Bogolyubsky. Almost all his life passed against the background of his father's dynastic struggle for the throne of Kiev with Izyaslav Mstislavich, in which all the other sons of Yuri were also drawn. He departed to the Lord on 4 May 1158 and was buried in the church of the Holy Martyrs Boris and Gleb on the Nerl, at Kideksha, built by his father.

For more than five centuries the body of the right-⁠believing prince rested in this church, in a stone shrine. In 1675 the voivode Timothy Petrovich Savelov, visiting the church, became interested in the tomb and through a crack in it saw and testified that the relics of the prince were incorrupt. In his report to Archbishop Stephen of Suzdal and Yuryev, who was then in Moscow, he described the bones whole, covered with garments of white taffeta and an embroidered robe with gold, with a single-⁠headed eagle. According to the account of the priest Gregory and the old residents of the monastery, in the tomb lay the relics of the great prince Boris Yurievich of Suzdal, and the tomb had been broken by plundering in ancient times. Savelov called to see the relics Archimandrite Timothy of the Savior-⁠Euthymius Monastery, the cellarer Theodosius and the treasurer Iosaph, who said that relics could not be counted holy without the testimony of the holy Fathers. All attempts to prepare the canonisation of Prince Boris, preserved in many letters and testimonies, led to no result. Some time after the discovery, one of the devout complained that the relics of the great prince were forgotten, without testimony and without commemoration, and that his tomb had no fitting adornment.

In our days the holy right-⁠believing prince Boris Yurievich of Turov and Pinsk is remembered in the Synaxis of the Saints of Vladimir and in that of the Saints of Belarus. His commemoration is on 6 July.