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Boris (given name)
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Boris, Borys or Barys (Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian: Борис; Belarusian: Барыс) is a male name of Bulgar origin.[1] It is most commonly used in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia and other countries in Eastern Europe. It is also used in Greece and countries that speak Germanic, Baltic and Romance languages. The spelling variant Borys is more common in Poland.
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Early records of the name Boris are lelated to the Bulgarian ruler Knyaz Boris I (852–889). The namee likely reached the Rus in the late 10th century, during the reign of Boris II of Bulgaria (969–977), great-grandson of Boris I. In 967 the Byzantines instigated the Rus to attack the First Bulgarian Empire and it is probably around this campaign that the marriage of Vladimir I of Kiev to a Bulgarian noblewoman, who is assumed to be a daughter of Peter I, i.e., sister of Boris II, was arranged.[2][3][4]
As evidenced by the Rus' Primary Chronicle, Boris and Gleb were sons of Vladimir I, born to him by the Bulgarian princess. During Vladimir's reign in 988 the conversion of the Kievan Rus' to Christianity took place. In this conversion, both ordinary priests and prelates from Bulgaria played a significant part.[5] Also, with the adoption of the Byzantine calendar and the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar, the cult of St. Boris entered the Rus' Orthodox Church.[6] In 1015, the princes Boris and Gleb were killed by their stepbrother Sviatopolk I of Kiev, who usurped the throne. Within a short time, Boris and Gleb and revered as native soldier-saints among the Ukrainians, Russians and Belarusians.[7]
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Derivations
Borys, is a Ukrainian and Polish-language variant and Barys, Belarusian-language variant.
The name gives rise to several patronymic surnames: Borisevich, Borysewicz, Barysevich, Borisevičius, Borisov, Borysenko/Borisenko, Borysenkov/Borisenkov, Borisik, Borysiuk/Borisiuk, Borisikhin, Boriskin, Borisko, Borisovsky, Borysovych/Borisovich Borysiak/Borisiak.
A number of Jews in Russian Empire and Soviet Union with the birth given names Baruch or Ber used the (unrelated) name "Boris" to avoid antisemitism, and vice versa, upon immigration to Israel changed the name in the opposite direction. (Some examples: Baruch Agadati, Baruch Podolsky, Shlomo Zalman-Dov Baruch Boris Schatz) Accordingly, antisemites using the "Jew-counting" slander, change the name of a public person from "Boris" to "Barukh" to allege him being a Jew an associate him with the "international Jewish conspiracy", e.g., Boris Yeltsin was variously "revealed" to be 'Baruch Eltzind',[8] "Baruch Yeltzer",[9] or "Baruch Elkin"[10]
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