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Mstislav

Prince of Vladimir

A prince of Vladimir, commemorated in the Greek Orthodox calendar.

Feast
March 28old style April 10
Reposed
117212th century

Life

Mstislav Andreyevich was the second son of Great Prince Andrey Bogolyubsky and a prince in north-⁠eastern Rus. He is commemorated in the Greek calendar on 28 March (new style, the calendar of the Church of Greece) as a right-⁠believing saint, and the English calendar calls him prince of Vladimir-⁠Suzdal and places him in the year 1173. According to the chronicles, he died on a 28 March, the year being reckoned as 1172 or 1173, and was buried in the Dormition Cathedral at Vladimir.

In 1169 his father set him at the head of a coalition of princes against Kiev, and in 1172 he led the army in a campaign against the Volga Bulgars. The sources consulted do not say when and by whom he was canonized; he is honoured in calendars, without a known synodal canonization.

Commemorated the same day March 28