Saint Sophia, in the world Solomonia, was the daughter of the boyar Yuri Konstantinovich Saburov. In 1505, she married Grand Duke Vasily Ivanovich, but the marriage turned out to be unhappy due to infertility. In 1525, wishing to have an heir, the duke married a second time and ordered Solomonia to be tonsured as a nun, giving her the name Sophia. She was exiled to the Pokrovsky Monastery in Suzdal, where she completely devoted herself to God.
The Duke Kurbski called her 'the blessed martyr.' In manuscript saints' lives, she is referred to as 'Holy Righteous Princess Sophia the Nun, who was in the Pokrovsky Monastery as a virgin, a miracle worker.' During the reign of Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich, she was venerated as a saint, and Tsarina Irina Fyodorovna sent a covering with the image of the Savior and saints to Suzdal. Patriarch Joseph wrote about the panikhidas and molebens held for Sophia. Blessed Sophia reposed in the Lord in 1542, and miraculous healings occurred at her grave.
