Theodora

Holy Theodora Yuryevna was the daughter of Grand Prince Yuri II of Vladimir and Princess Agaphia and died on 7 February 1238, when the Mongol-⁠Tatars took Vladimir. The Church honours her as a right-⁠believing princess, in the Synaxis of the Saints of Vladimir.

By some accounts she perished in the fire of the Dormition cathedral, where she had taken refuge with her mother; by others she was tortured in Batu's camp. She was buried in the Dormition cathedral of Vladimir, together with her mother and her sisters-⁠in-⁠law. Another view holds that Theodora was the name of one of Agaphia's daughters-⁠in-⁠law, who perished then. The painter Ilya Glazunov pictured her in his painting "Eternal Russia" as a girl taken captive by the Tatars; researchers note, however, that the girl in the painting looks older than the eight-⁠year-⁠old Theodora.

She is commemorated on 23 June by the old calendar (6 July by the new), in the Synaxis of the Saints of Vladimir.