Boris and Gleb

The first Russian saints, Boris and Gleb brothers elected voluntary death for themselves, abandoning the struggle for power over Kiev and all Russian Earth. It happened almost a thousand years ago, in the summer and early in the fall of 1015, after the death of their father Vladimir, the Baptist of Russia. But in the subsequent Russian history, paradoxically, the holy brothers began to be perceived as heavenly intercessors and warriors for Russian land, their invisible presence in the fields of battles with conquerors, the interemphests Russian people felt constantly and for many centuries - and on the ice of the Lake Church in 1242, and On the eve and during the Kulikovsky battle of 1380, and at the invasion of Russia, the krymsky khan, Devlet-Hire in the XVI century ... in our age, cultivating pragmatism and hedonism and recognizing only brutal heroes, brothers Boris and Gleb, who appeared the world of non-resistance to evil, can To seem to those whom the streets are called "losers", lusers". But the committed them does not have anything in common with his suppressive and timid subordination, nor with cowardice and paralysis of the will. This is reminded by the author of the book, doctor of philological sciences, Professor Andrei Mikhailovich Ranchin.
The book represented by the attention of readers is essentially the first experience of the biographical, rather than life narration about Boris and Gleb. The author carefully disassembles all versions of sources, all testimonies related to the biography of the brothers, trying to give their answer to the question: why exactly Boris and Gleb, and not in some other victims so frequent in the ancient Russia of orange conflicts, made it possible to become the first Russian saints?