The life of St Peter Yaropolk
When his father was restored and later died, Yaropolk was given the city of Vladimir in Volhynia to govern, and there he had to defend his inheritance against kinsmen who wished to take it from him.
Traveling from Vladimir toward Zvenigorod, Yaropolk was struck down by his own retainer, a man who had been bribed to kill him by rival princes. His body was carried to Kiev and laid to rest in the church of Saint Peter, which he himself had begun building at the monastery of Saint Demetrius. He was remembered for his generosity, giving a portion of his wealth to the churches of the Mother of God, and the earliest chronicles of the Kievan Church already spoke of him as a prince pleasing to God, murdered by treachery rather than dying in battle or by his own fault, and so counted among the passion-bearers of the Russian land.
