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Transportation of the Body of Kniaz Boris
to the Place of Burial

Radziwill Chronicle, fol. 75v, Slavonic (Belorus or Russia), 15th century
Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, no. 34.5.30 After Radzivilovskaia ili Kenigsbergskaia letopis’ (St. Petersburg, 1902), fol. 75v

Here the illuminator shows the viewer that after Kniaz Boris was killed by order of his brother (left), his body was transported by carriage to the church of St. Basil, where he was buried.

FUNERAL AND BURIAL RITUALS

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