Christina of Vladimir

Christina of Vladimir was, according to tradition, a right-⁠believing princess of Vladimir, wife of Prince Vladimir Yuryevich and daughter-⁠in-⁠law of Grand Prince Yuri II Vsevolodovich. She died in 1238, when the army of Khan Batu took Vladimir. She is commemorated on 6 July, which is 23 June by the old calendar. Her veneration is local, in the Synaxis of the saints of Vladimir.

She perished at the capture of Vladimir by the armies of Khan Batu, either in the fire in the Dormition cathedral or tormented in the khan's camp. No reliable likenesses of her have survived, nor icons, akathist or life. The historian V. N. Tatishchev denied that the person was real, as he did the other legendary princess, Maria of Vladimir. In his history it is said that in 1236 Grand Prince Yuri Vsevolodovich "married Vladimir to Mstislava". In that case the semi-⁠legendary Mstislava comes on stage in place of Christina. Yet this name already appears in the works of Karamzin and Solovyov.

Christina was canonized by the Orthodox Church in 1645 as a right-⁠believing princess, in the Synaxis of the saints of Vladimir, together with her mother-⁠in-⁠law, Princess Agatha Vsevolodovna, her daughter, Theodora Yuryevna, and the wife of her husband's brother, Maria of Vladimir.