Boris Saltykov

Holy Martyr Boris Saltykov is one of the martyrs of Kazan who suffered for Christ in the city of Kazan in the years 1552-1553, according to azbyka. Of him, as of the others in the group, only the name has been preserved.

The group includes Russian and Tatar martyrs killed by people of another faith: John (in 1529), Stephen and Peter (in 1552), then Boris Saltykov, Jacob Evstafev, Theodore Churkin, Sylvan Vasilyev, Theodore Baklanovsky, Basil, Theodore and Demetrius Konstantinov, Michael Kuzminsky, John and Basil. Patriarch Job's letter of 3 February 1592 says that those killed at Kazan were entered in the great synodikon and are commemorated on the second day of the feast of the Protection of the Mother of God, that is, on 2 October by the old calendar (15 October by the new). The Synaxis of the Saints of Kazan is kept on 4 October by the old calendar (17 October by the new).