Saints and Passion-bearers Boris and Gleb. Russian Orthodox Icon. Saints Boris and Gleb were murdered at the instigation of their older brother, Prince Sviatopolk, who wanted the throne to himself after their father St. Vladimir, Prince of Kiev, reposed in 1015 AD.  Saints Boris and Gleb are called "Passion-bearers' because they did not resist the evil of their older brother and willingly suffered to preserve and unify the Kievan lands and the people of ancient Rus.

Sizes: 

#431 - S (2½" x 3" on ½" wood). 
#745 - M (3½" x 4" on ⅝" wood). 
#850 - ML (5" x 6¼" on ¾" wood).  

Icons manufactured by a Russian supplier using their proprietary process of applying successive layers of color and metallic-like patterns resulting in a brilliant, detailed, and nearly three dimensional appearance. (Note: The photograph of this icon will be updated soon because this picture is a little blurry, the actual icons are not blurry)  

Icon inscriptions in Church Slavonic.