Boris stones

Boris Stones, additionally referred to as Dvina Stones, are seven medieval artifacts erected alongside the bank of the Western Dvina between Polotsk and Drissa, Belarus. They in all likelihood predate Christianity within the vicinity, but had been inscribed within the twelfth century with textual content and an image of Christ. The biggest of the stones is 17 metres in circumference. Although these landmarks had been defined inside the sixteenth century by using Maciej Stryjkowski, it changed into Georg von Cancrin in 1818 who first introduced them to scholarly interest. Cancrin discovered that a boulder close to Orsha had the following inscription: "In the 12 months 1171, at the seventh day of March, turned into completed this pass. Lord, please assist your servant Basil, whose other name is Rogvolod, Boris' son".

Subsequently, numerous different boulders with Boris's name have been discovered. In the Nineteen Thirties, of those had been blown up with the aid of Communist authorities as non secular objects and their stays used to pave the road between Minsk and Moscow. Another one become thrown into the river, wherein it lay until its discovery in 1988. When an try to get better it become made, the stone broke apart into 3 pieces. Three different boulders had been moved to be exhibited near St. Sophia Cathedral in Polotsk, within the Museum of Boulders in Minsk, and in Kolomenskoe close to Moscow.