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164 OMEUAN PRITSAKcommemorate them. Possibly he had become a priest like his uncleand was associated with the clergy of St. Sophia, hence his access tothat church and/or opportunity to have the inscription carved thereprofessionally.As was noted above, Volodimer Monomax mentioned BêlaVeza in connection with the year 1085. He described one memorableencounter thus: "On the following morning, which was the Lord'sDay [Sunday], we marched [from the banks of the Sula River] towardBêla Vëza. With the help of God and of the Holy Virgin, we killednine hundred Polovcians and captured two princes, Asin' and Sakz',the brothers of Bagubars, and only two men [of their force] escaped."58 We can reasonably assume that during such an importantbattle some of the Rus' warriors were killed. If Ćernye Kłobuki wereamong the warriors, two of their leaders might well have been killed.The death of a car and роріпь from the Ćernye Kłobuki wouldsurely have been worthy of immortalization in Kiev's St. Sophiacathedral. The genealogy of the relevant Ćernye Kłobuki clan was,hypotheticalły:BökäTätük Kuć, роріпьIvan, cord. ca. 1085 d. ca. 1085N.n(the person who carved, orcommissioned, graffito no. 153).ΛGraffito no. 153 found in the Cathedral of St. Sophia in Kiev hassignificance for the history of Eastern Europe, for it is the only knowninscription to honor the Ćernye Kłobuki of princely Rus'. Its importancefor philology and cultural history lies in its unique bilingual,Turkic-Slavic, character.Harvard University58PVL, ed. Lixacev, 1: 160.