White-stone sarcophagi in Arcosolia of the church of Sts. Boris and Gleb in Kideksha

The paper publishes two arch niches (arcosolia) and two sarcophagi located in these niches with remains of Prince Boris Yurievich, son of Prince Yury the Long Arm, (died in 1159) and his wife Maria (died in 1161). This funerary complex in the Church of Sts. Boris and Gleb in Kideksha, a white-stone church built in the mid-12th century, is one of the well-preserved and the earliest complexes of this type in the Vladimir-Suzdal Rus. It also contains a monumental fresco painting in the arcosolia. The author who performed archaeological excavations in the church in 2011-2012 provides analogies of their ‘mirror’ location in churches and cathedrals of Byzantium and Medieval Russia and describes the arcosolia and their sarcophagi putting them in the context and typology of funerary constructions of the Vladimir-Suzdal Principality.