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Gleb of Kiev. Gleb Yurievich[ a] (died 1171) was Prince of Kursk (1147), Kanev (1149), Pereyaslavl (1155–1169), and Grand Prince of Kiev (1169-1170; 1170–1171). He was a son of Yuri Dolgorukiy. [ 1]
He built a pagan temple on a hill in Kiev dedicated to six gods: Perun—the god of thunder and war, a god favored by members of the prince's druzhina (military retinue); Slavic gods Stribog and Dazhd'bog; Mokosh—a goddess representing Mother Nature "worshipped by Finnish tribes"; Khors and Simargl, "both of which had Iranian ...
Boris and Gleb (Old East Slavic: Борисъ и Глѣбъ, romanized: Borisŭ i Glěbŭ), [a] respective Christian names Roman (Романъ, Romanŭ) and David (Давꙑдъ, Davydŭ), [citation needed] were the first saints canonized in Kievan Rus' after its Christianization.
Principi russi, figli di Vladimiro il Santo gran principe di Kiev. Furono fatti uccidere in giovane età, nel 1015, dal fratello maggiore Svjatopolk il Maledetto, succeduto al padre e desideroso d'assoggettare al proprio dominio tutte le terre russe levando di mezzo ogni possibile rivale.
GLEB, santo. Giorgio Vernadskij. , Figlio del gran principe di Kiev, Vladimiro, nacque circa il 984. Prima della morte del padre, che divise i suoi possedimenti fra i figli, G. ebbe il principato di Murom e andò a stabilirvisi.
Invited by Svyatopolk to meet him at Kiev, Gleb suddenly met the boat which carried his murderers. He initially entreated them to spare him but at length voluntarily submitted to his fate, the final blow being a stab in the throat from his own cook.
Princes Boris and Gleb were the first East Slavic saints canonized after the baptism of their father, prince Vladimir of Kiev, in 988. Murdered by their half-brother Svjatopolk in the fight for the power that followed Vladimir’s death in 1015, they were canonized in the Kievan Rus’ already in 1071, and their cult became a way to legitimate ...
