One morning a woman came to his door with a box of photographs stacked like flat, silent windows. Her mother had left many years before and the photographs had gone with the flow. She asked Yurievij if he’d seen any. He opened the jar and let the images pass like fishes through his fingers—sea-glazed coins, a flap of childlike handwriting, a pebble the color of someone's laugh. He found a torn corner of an old photograph and handed it to her. Her face rearranged when she saw it—astonishment, the thaw of a memory. She sat on his stoop and told him stories until the stars learned the town’s history anew.
Under his rule, the city of Vladimir reached its peak power. He was the son of Yuri Dolgorukiy (the founder of Moscow). Dmitry Yurievich Shemyaka : Grand Prince of Moscow. Yurievij