Monumental mosaic of the Theotokos (Mother

of God) in the apse of the church of St Sophia in

Kiev; mid-eleventh century.
St Luke the Evangelist. Manuscript miniature;
1057; from the Ostromir Gospel, the oldest
surviving dated Slavonic book.
 Mosaic of St Mark writing his Gospel, in the
church of St Sophia in Kiev; mid-eleventh
century. All the inscriptions (the evangelist’s
name, and the text of his Gospel on the lectern)
are in Greek.
 Icon of Saints Boris and Gleb; early fourteenth century. Boris
and Gleb were sons of Prince Vladimir Sviatoslavich (the Kievan
prince who made Christianity the official religion of Rus’).
Murdered in 1015 by their brother, Boris and Gleb were among
the very earliest natives of Rus’ to be venerated as saints