Right-Believing
Mstislav Georgievich
Prince of Vladimir
Faithful prince of Vladimir, venerated in the Russian Orthodox calendar.
- Reposed
- 123813th century
Life
Right-believing Prince Mstislav Georgievich of Vladimir, a martyr, was born in 1218 at Vladimir, in the family of the right-believing Prince Georgy (Yury) Vsevolodovich and the martyred princess Agafia of Vladimir. He was a grandson of the grand prince Vsevolod (Dimitry) Yurievich the Big Nest. In 1236 he married Maria, the right-believing martyred princess Maria of Vladimir (1220-1238), whose origin is not known. Of his lands nothing is known; he had a small appanage in north-eastern Rus.
He was killed by the Mongols beneath the walls of Vladimir in February 1238. In the second half of the seventeenth century the relics of Saint Mstislav, together with those of his brothers, the right-believing martyred Prince Vladimir and the right-believing Prince Vsevolod, and of Prince Theodore-Yaroslav Vsevolodovich, rested in the side chapel of the Great Martyr George. The Azbyka page gives no particular day of commemoration.