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class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Bibliography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Bibliography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>Bibliography</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Bibliography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table of contents" > <label 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%8A" title="ألكسندر نيفسكي – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="ألكسندر نيفسكي" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Nevski" title="Alejandro Nevski – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Alejandro Nevski" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Nevski" title="Aleksandr Nevski – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Aleksandr Nevski" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%A9%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B3%DA%A9%DB%8C" title="الکساندر نوسکی – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="الکساندر نوسکی" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%8D%E2%80%8C%E0%A6%B0_%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%AD%E0%A7%8D%E2%80%8C%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF" title="আলেক্সান্দ্‌র নেভ্‌স্কি – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="আলেক্সান্দ্‌র নেভ্‌স্কি" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9" title="Александр Невский – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Александр Невский" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%8F%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%AF%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%96%D1%87_%D0%9D%D0%B5%D1%9E%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%96" title="Аляксандр Яраславіч Неўскі – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Аляксандр Яраславіч Неўскі" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%8F%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%9D%D0%B5%D1%9E%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%96" title="Аляксандар Неўскі – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Аляксандар Неўскі" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%8A%D1%80_%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8" title="Александър Невски – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Александър Невски" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Nevski" title="Alexandre Nevski – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Alexandre Nevski" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Nevsky" title="Alexander Nevsky – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Alexander Nevsky" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandr_N%C4%9Bvsk%C3%BD" title="Alexandr Něvský – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Alexandr Něvský" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alecsandr_Nefski" title="Alecsandr Nefski – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Alecsandr Nefski" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Nevskij" title="Aleksandr Nevskij – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Aleksandr Nevskij" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Jaroslawitsch_Newski" title="Alexander Jaroslawitsch Newski – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Alexander Jaroslawitsch Newski" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Nevski" title="Aleksander Nevski – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Aleksander Nevski" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91%CE%BB%CE%AD%CE%BE%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B4%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%82_%CE%9D%CE%B9%CE%AD%CF%86%CF%83%CE%BA%CE%B9" title="Αλέξανδρος Νιέφσκι – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Αλέξανδρος Νιέφσκι" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Nevski" title="Alejandro Nevski – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Alejandro Nevski" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandro_Nevskij" title="Aleksandro Nevskij – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Aleksandro Nevskij" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandro_Nevski" title="Alexandro Nevski – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Alexandro Nevski" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%A9%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B3%DA%A9%DB%8C" title="الکساندر نوسکی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="الکساندر نوسکی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Nevskij" title="Aleksander Nevskij – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="Aleksander Nevskij" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Føroyskt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Nevski" title="Alexandre Nevski – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Alexandre Nevski" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Nevski" title="Alexandre Nevski – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Alexandre Nevski" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%8C%EB%A0%89%EC%82%B0%EB%93%9C%EB%A5%B4_%EB%84%B5%EC%8A%A4%ED%82%A4" title="알렉산드르 넵스키 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="알렉산드르 넵스키" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B1%D5%AC%D5%A5%D6%84%D5%BD%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%A4%D6%80_%D5%86%D6%87%D5%BD%D5%AF%D5%AB" title="Ալեքսանդր Նևսկի – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Ալեքսանդր Նևսկի" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandar_Nevski" title="Aleksandar Nevski – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Aleksandar Nevski" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Nevskiy" title="Aleksandr Nevskiy – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Aleksandr Nevskiy" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Nevsk%C3%ADj" title="Alexander Nevskíj – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Alexander Nevskíj" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Nevskij" title="Aleksandr Nevskij – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Aleksandr Nevskij" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%A1%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%A8_%D7%A0%D7%91%D7%A1%D7%A7%D7%99" title="אלכסנדר נבסקי – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="אלכסנדר נבסקי" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%90%E1%83%9A%E1%83%94%E1%83%A5%E1%83%A1%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%93%E1%83%A0%E1%83%94_%E1%83%9C%E1%83%94%E1%83%95%E1%83%94%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98" title="ალექსანდრე ნეველი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ალექსანდრე ნეველი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9" title="Александр Невский – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Александр Невский" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9" title="Александр Невский – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Александр Невский" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Nevensis" title="Alexander Nevensis – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Alexander Nevensis" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandrs_%C5%85evskis" title="Aleksandrs Ņevskis – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Aleksandrs Ņevskis" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandras_Nevi%C5%A1kis" title="Aleksandras Neviškis – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Aleksandras Neviškis" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._S%C3%A1ndor_vlagyimiri_nagyfejedelem" title="I. Sándor vlagyimiri nagyfejedelem – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="I. Sándor vlagyimiri nagyfejedelem" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8" title="Александар Невски – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Александар Невски" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Nevsky" title="Alexander Nevsky – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Alexander Nevsky" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%89" title="الكسندر نيفيسكى – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="الكسندر نيفيسكى" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B9%D0%BD_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80" title="Невийн Александр – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Невийн Александр" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Nevski_(grootvorst)" title="Alexander Nevski (grootvorst) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Alexander Nevski (grootvorst)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AC%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8D%E3%83%95%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC" title="アレクサンドル・ネフスキー – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="アレクサンドル・ネフスキー" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Nevskij" title="Aleksandr Nevskij – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Aleksandr Nevskij" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Nevskij" title="Aleksandr Nevskij – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Aleksandr Nevskij" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Nevski" title="Alexandre Nevski – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Alexandre Nevski" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Nevskiy" title="Aleksandr Nevskiy – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Aleksandr Nevskiy" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C%DA%AF%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B3%DA%A9%DB%8C" title="الیگزاندر نیوسکی – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="الیگزاندر نیوسکی" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Newski" title="Aleksander Newski – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Aleksander Newski" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Nevski" title="Alexandre Nevski – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Alexandre Nevski" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Nevski" title="Aleksandr Nevski – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Aleksandr Nevski" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%AF%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9" title="Александр Ярославич Невский – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Александр Ярославич Невский" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Nevsky" title="Alexander Nevsky – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Alexander Nevsky" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Nevsk%C3%BD" title="Alexander Nevský – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Alexander Nevský" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Jaroslavi%C4%8D_Nevski" title="Aleksander Jaroslavič Nevski – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Aleksander Jaroslavič Nevski" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8" title="Александар Невски – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Александар Невски" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandar_Nevski" title="Aleksandar Nevski – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Aleksandar Nevski" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksanteri_Nevski" title="Aleksanteri Nevski – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Aleksanteri Nevski" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Nevskij" title="Alexander Nevskij – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Alexander Nevskij" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%85%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%A8%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%A8%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%B5%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B8%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BF" title="அலெக்சாந்தர் நெவ்ஸ்கி – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="அலெக்சாந்தர் நெவ்ஸ்கி" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9" title="Александр Невский – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="Александр Невский" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Татарча / tatarça</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tg mw-list-item"><a href="https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9" title="Александр Невский – Tajik" lang="tg" hreflang="tg" data-title="Александр Невский" data-language-autonym="Тоҷикӣ" data-language-local-name="Tajik" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Тоҷикӣ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link 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V</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Andrey_II_of_Vladimir" title="Andrey II of Vladimir">Andrey I</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Reign</th><td class="infobox-data">1241–1256</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Predecessor</th><td class="infobox-data">Andrey I</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data">Vasily I</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Reign</th><td class="infobox-data">1258–1259</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Predecessor</th><td class="infobox-data">Vasily I</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Dmitry_of_Pereslavl" title="Dmitry of Pereslavl">Dmitry I</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #e4dcf6;color:inherit;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Grand_Prince_of_Kiev" title="Grand Prince of Kiev">Grand Prince of Kiev</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Reign</th><td class="infobox-data">1246–1263</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Predecessor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Yaroslav_II_of_Vladimir" title="Yaroslav II of Vladimir">Yaroslav III</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Yaroslav_of_Tver" title="Yaroslav of Tver">Yaroslav IV</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #e4dcf6;color:inherit;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Grand_Prince_of_Vladimir-Suzdal" class="mw-redirect" title="Grand Prince of Vladimir-Suzdal">Grand Prince of Vladimir</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Reign</th><td class="infobox-data">1252–1263</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Predecessor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Andrey_II_of_Vladimir" title="Andrey II of Vladimir">Andrey II</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Yaroslav_of_Tver" title="Yaroslav of Tver">Yaroslav III</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #e4dcf6;color:inherit;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><div style="height: 4px; width:100%;"></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">13 May 1221<br /><a href="/wiki/Pereslavl-Zalessky" title="Pereslavl-Zalessky">Pereslavl-Zalessky</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vladimir-Suzdal" title="Vladimir-Suzdal">Vladimir-Suzdal</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">14 November 1263<span style="display:none">(1263-11-14)</span> (aged 42)<br /><a href="/wiki/Gorodets,_Nizhny_Novgorod_Oblast" title="Gorodets, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast">Gorodets</a>, Vladimir-Suzdal</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Burial</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="label"><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Nevsky_Lavra" title="Alexander Nevsky Lavra">Alexander Nevsky Lavra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saint_Petersburg" title="Saint Petersburg">Saint Petersburg</a>, Russia</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Paraskeviya (Alexandra) of Polotsk<br />Vasilisa (Vassa)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Issue_(genealogy)" title="Issue (genealogy)">Issue</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Vasily Alexandrovich<br />Eudoxia Alexandrovna<br /><a href="/wiki/Dmitry_of_Pereslavl" title="Dmitry of Pereslavl">Dmitry Alexandrovich</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Andrey_of_Gorodets" title="Andrey of Gorodets">Andrey Alexandrovich</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Daniel_of_Moscow" title="Daniel of Moscow">Daniil Alexandrovich</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Dynasty" title="Dynasty">House</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Yurievichi" class="mw-redirect" title="Yurievichi">Yurievichi</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Father</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Yaroslav_II_of_Vladimir" title="Yaroslav II of Vladimir">Yaroslav II of Vladimir</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Mother</th><td class="infobox-data">Feodosia Igorevna of Ryazan</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Religion</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Eastern Orthodox</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky</b><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (<a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>: <span lang="ru">Александр Ярославич Невский</span>; <style 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Nevsky.ogg">ⓘ</a></sup></span></span>; <a href="/wiki/Monastic_name" class="mw-redirect" title="Monastic name">monastic name</a>: <i>Aleksiy</i>;<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 13 May 1221<sup id="cite_ref-rozhdenia_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rozhdenia-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – 14 November 1263) was <a href="/wiki/Prince_of_Novgorod" title="Prince of Novgorod">Prince of Novgorod</a> (1236–1240; 1241–1256; 1258–1259), <a href="/wiki/Grand_Prince_of_Kiev" title="Grand Prince of Kiev">Grand Prince of Kiev</a> (1246–1263) and <a href="/wiki/Grand_Prince_of_Vladimir" title="Grand Prince of Vladimir">Grand Prince of Vladimir</a> (1252–1263). </p><p>Commonly regarded as a key figure in medieval Russian history,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVälimäki2022xv,_...he_became_one_of_the_great_heroes_of_Russian_history,_a_defender_of_Russia_against_alien_forces._This_was,_however,_a_later_development_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVälimäki2022xv,_...he_became_one_of_the_great_heroes_of_Russian_history,_a_defender_of_Russia_against_alien_forces._This_was,_however,_a_later_development-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Alexander was a grandson of <a href="/wiki/Vsevolod_the_Big_Nest" title="Vsevolod the Big Nest">Vsevolod the Big Nest</a> and rose to legendary status on account of his military victories over Swedish invaders, specifically the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Neva" title="Battle of the Neva">Battle of the Neva</a><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Battle_on_the_Ice" title="Battle on the Ice">Battle on 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He preserved separate statehood and <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Orthodoxy</a>, agreeing to pay tribute to the powerful <a href="/wiki/Golden_Horde" title="Golden Horde">Golden Horde</a>. Metropolitan <a href="/wiki/Macarius,_Metropolitan_of_Moscow" title="Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow">Macarius of Moscow</a> canonized Alexander Nevsky as a saint of the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_Church" title="Russian Orthodox Church">Russian Orthodox Church</a> in 1547.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Nevsky&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From the <i>Tales of the Life and Courage of the Pious and Great Prince Alexander</i> found in the <i><a href="/wiki/Pskov_Chronicles" title="Pskov Chronicles">Second Pskovian Chronicle</a></i> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1260–1280</span>) comes one of the first known references to Alexander Yaroslavich:<sup id="cite_ref-Begunov1955p11-15_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Begunov1955p11-15-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"> <p>By the will of God, prince Alexander was born from the charitable, people-loving, and meek the Great Prince Yaroslav, and his mother was Theodosia. As it was told by the prophet <a href="/wiki/Isaiah" title="Isaiah">Isaiah</a>: 'Thus sayeth the Lord: I appoint the princes because they are sacred and I direct them.' </p><p>...He was taller than others and his voice reached the people as a trumpet, and his face was like the face of <a href="/wiki/Joseph_(son_of_Jacob)" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph (son of Jacob)">Joseph</a>, whom the Egyptian <a href="/wiki/Pharaoh" title="Pharaoh">Pharaoh</a> placed as next to the king after him of Egypt. His power was a part of the power of <a href="/wiki/Samson" title="Samson">Samson</a> and God gave him the wisdom of <a href="/wiki/Solomon" title="Solomon">Solomon</a>... this Prince Alexander: he used to defeat but was never defeated... </p> </blockquote> <p>Born in <a href="/wiki/Pereslavl-Zalessky" title="Pereslavl-Zalessky">Pereslavl-Zalessky</a>, Alexander was the second son of Prince <a href="/wiki/Yaroslav_II_of_Vladimir" title="Yaroslav II of Vladimir">Yaroslav Vsevolodovich</a> and Feodosia Igorevna of Ryazan. His maternal grandfather was Igor Glebovich, the second son of Gleb Rostislavich, the prince of Ryazan (<span style="white-space:nowrap;"><abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1178</span>). His maternal grandmother was Agrafena of Kiev, daughter of <a href="/wiki/Rostislav_I_of_Kiev" title="Rostislav I of Kiev">Rostislav I of Kiev</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reign">Reign</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Nevsky&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Reign"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Prince_of_Novgorod">Prince of Novgorod</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Nevsky&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Prince of Novgorod"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Alexander_Nevskiy_receiving_papal_legates_by_Siemiradzki_(litography).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Alexander_Nevskiy_receiving_papal_legates_by_Siemiradzki_%28litography%29.jpg/220px-Alexander_Nevskiy_receiving_papal_legates_by_Siemiradzki_%28litography%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="248" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Alexander_Nevskiy_receiving_papal_legates_by_Siemiradzki_%28litography%29.jpg/330px-Alexander_Nevskiy_receiving_papal_legates_by_Siemiradzki_%28litography%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Alexander_Nevskiy_receiving_papal_legates_by_Siemiradzki_%28litography%29.jpg/440px-Alexander_Nevskiy_receiving_papal_legates_by_Siemiradzki_%28litography%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="888" data-file-height="1000" /></a><figcaption><i>Prince Alexander Nevsky receiving Papal legates</i>, painting by <a href="/wiki/Henryk_Siemiradzki" title="Henryk Siemiradzki">Henryk Siemiradzki</a> (1870s)</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1236, Alexander was appointed by the <a href="/wiki/Novgorod_Republic" title="Novgorod Republic">Novgorodians</a> to become their <a href="/wiki/Prince_of_Novgorod" title="Prince of Novgorod">prince</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Knyaz" title="Knyaz">knyaz</a></i>), where he had already served as his father's governor in Novgorod.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1237, the Swedes received papal authorization to <a href="/wiki/Second_Swedish_Crusade" title="Second Swedish Crusade">launch a crusade</a>, and in 1240, new campaigns began in the easternmost part of the Baltic region.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFonnesberg-Schmidt2007216–217In_1240_new_campaigns_were_launched..._first_was_organized_by_the_Swedes..._obtained_papal_authorization_in_1237_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFonnesberg-Schmidt2007216–217In_1240_new_campaigns_were_launched..._first_was_organized_by_the_Swedes..._obtained_papal_authorization_in_1237-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to the <i><a href="/wiki/Novgorod_First_Chronicle" title="Novgorod First Chronicle">Novgorod First Chronicle</a></i> written in the 14th century, more than a century after the events it records, the Swedish army landed at the confluence of the rivers <a href="/wiki/Izhora" title="Izhora">Izhora</a> and <a href="/wiki/Neva" title="Neva">Neva</a>, when Alexander and his small army suddenly attacked the Swedes on 15 July 1240 and defeated them at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Neva" title="Battle of the Neva">Battle of the Neva</a>. Following the battle, Alexander received the <a href="/wiki/Sobriquet" title="Sobriquet">sobriquet</a> <i>Nevsky</i> ("of the Neva").<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFonnesberg-Schmidt2007216–217The_Russian_victory_was_later_depicted_as_an_event_of_great_national_importance_and_Prince_Alexander_was_given_the_sobriquet_"Nevskii"_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFonnesberg-Schmidt2007216–217The_Russian_victory_was_later_depicted_as_an_event_of_great_national_importance_and_Prince_Alexander_was_given_the_sobriquet_"Nevskii"-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This victory, coming just three years after the disastrous <a href="/wiki/Mongol_invasion_of_Kievan_Rus%27" title="Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus'">Mongol invasions</a>, strengthened Alexander's political influence, but at the same time it worsened his relations with the <a href="/wiki/Boyar" title="Boyar">boyars</a>. Alexander would be banished to <a href="/wiki/Pereslavl-Zalessky" title="Pereslavl-Zalessky">Pereslavl-Zalessky</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFonnesberg-Schmidt2007218_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFonnesberg-Schmidt2007218-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Later in 1240, crusaders from the <a href="/wiki/Bishopric_of_Dorpat" title="Bishopric of Dorpat">Bishopric of Dorpat</a> along with the forces of the exiled prince of Pskov attacked the <a href="/wiki/Pskov_Republic" title="Pskov Republic">Pskov Republic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Votia" class="mw-redirect" title="Votia">Votia</a>, a tributary of Novgorod.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFonnesberg-Schmidt2007218_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFonnesberg-Schmidt2007218-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Novgorodian authorities recalled Alexander, and in the spring of 1241, he returned from exile and assembled an army. Alexander managed to retake Pskov and <a href="/wiki/Koporye" title="Koporye">Koporye</a> from the crusaders and drive out the invaders.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFonnesberg-Schmidt2007218After_pleas_from_Novgorod_Alexander_returned_in_1241_and_marched_against_Kopor'e._Having_conquered_the_fortress_and_captured_the_remaining_Latin_Christians,_he_executed_those_local_Votians_who_had_cooperated_with_the_invaders_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFonnesberg-Schmidt2007218After_pleas_from_Novgorod_Alexander_returned_in_1241_and_marched_against_Kopor'e._Having_conquered_the_fortress_and_captured_the_remaining_Latin_Christians,_he_executed_those_local_Votians_who_had_cooperated_with_the_invaders-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He then continued into Estonian-German territory.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFonnesberg-Schmidt2007218_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFonnesberg-Schmidt2007218-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The crusaders defeated a detachment of the Novgorodian army about 20 kilometres (12 mi) south of the fortress of <a href="/wiki/Dorpat" class="mw-redirect" title="Dorpat">Dorpat</a>. As a result, Alexander set up a position at <a href="/wiki/Lake_Peipus" title="Lake Peipus">Lake Peipus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFonnesberg-Schmidt2007218_11-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFonnesberg-Schmidt2007218-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Alexander and his men then faced the Livonian heavy cavalry led by <a href="/wiki/Hermann_of_Dorpat" title="Hermann of Dorpat">Hermann of Dorpat</a>, brother of <a href="/wiki/Albert_of_Buxhoeveden" class="mw-redirect" title="Albert of Buxhoeveden">Albert of Buxhoeveden</a>, where they met on 5 April 1242.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFonnesberg-Schmidt2007218_11-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFonnesberg-Schmidt2007218-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Alexander's army then defeated the enemy in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_on_the_Ice" title="Battle on the Ice">Battle on the Ice</a>, halting the eastward expansion of the <a href="/wiki/Teutonic_Order" title="Teutonic Order">Teutonic Order</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later Russian sources would elevate the importance of the battle and portray it as one of the great Russian victories of the Middle Ages.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFonnesberg-Schmidt2007218...later_to_become_hailed_as_one_of_the_great_Russian_victories_of_the_Middle_Ages..._scale_of_the_battle_was,_however,_most_likely_exaggerated_in_the_later_Russian_sources,_as_was_indeed_its_significance_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFonnesberg-Schmidt2007218...later_to_become_hailed_as_one_of_the_great_Russian_victories_of_the_Middle_Ages..._scale_of_the_battle_was,_however,_most_likely_exaggerated_in_the_later_Russian_sources,_as_was_indeed_its_significance-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the Livonian invasion, Nevsky continued to strengthen the Republic of Novgorod. He sent his envoys to Norway and, as a result, they signed a first peace treaty between Novgorod and Norway in 1251. Alexander led his army to Finland and successfully routed the Swedes, who had made another attempt to block the <a href="/wiki/Baltic_Sea" title="Baltic Sea">Baltic Sea</a> from the Novgorodians in 1256.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Grand_Prince_of_Vladimir">Grand Prince of Vladimir</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Nevsky&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Grand Prince of Vladimir"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Upon the conquest of the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Principality_of_Vladimir" class="mw-redirect" title="Grand Principality of Vladimir">Grand Principality of Vladimir</a> by the Mongols in 1238,<sup id="cite_ref-Feldbrugge_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Feldbrugge-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> its reigning prince, <a href="/wiki/Yuri_II_of_Vladimir" title="Yuri II of Vladimir">Yuri II Vsevolodovich</a>, was killed in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Sit_River" title="Battle of the Sit River">Battle of the Sit River</a>; his younger brother, <a href="/wiki/Yaroslav_II_of_Vladimir" title="Yaroslav II of Vladimir">Yaroslav II Vsevolodovich</a> (Alexander's father), requested and received from the Mongol khan his permission to become the new prince. As prince, he assigned Novgorod to his son Alexander. However, while traveling in 1245 to the Mongol capital <a href="/wiki/Karakorum" title="Karakorum">Karakorum</a> in Central Asia, Yaroslav died. When in 1248 Alexander and his older brother <a href="/wiki/Andrey_II_of_Vladimir" title="Andrey II of Vladimir">Andrey II Yaroslavich</a> also traveled to Karakorum to attend upon the Great Khan, Andrey returned with the award of the title of <a href="/wiki/Grand_prince_of_Vladimir" class="mw-redirect" title="Grand prince of Vladimir">grand prince of Vladimir</a> and Alexander the nominal lordship of Kiev.<sup id="cite_ref-Feldbrugge_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Feldbrugge-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Rurikids" title="Rurikids">Rurikid</a> princes of Rus' were obliged to appear before the khan in person to be affirmed in their principalities.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When <a href="/wiki/M%C3%B6ngke_Khan" title="Möngke Khan">Möngke</a> became the new great khan in 1251, only two years after <a href="/wiki/G%C3%BCy%C3%BCk_Khan" title="Güyük Khan">Guyuk's</a> death, he demanded another appearance at <a href="/wiki/Sarai_(city)" title="Sarai (city)">Sarai</a> on the Volga, but Andrey refused to go.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thanks to his friendship with <a href="/wiki/Sartaq_Khan" title="Sartaq Khan">Sartaq Khan</a>, the subsequent invasion by the Mongols, their first venture into northeastern Rus' since the initial conquest, saw Andrey exiled to Sweden and Alexander assuming the title of <a href="/wiki/Grand_Duke_of_Vladimir" class="mw-redirect" title="Grand Duke of Vladimir">grand prince of Vladimir</a> in 1252,<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the most senior of the princes at the time following the fall of Kiev.<sup id="cite_ref-Figes_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Figes-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Alexander faithfully supported Mongol rule within his own domains. In 1259, he led an army to the city of Novgorod and forced it to pay tribute it had previously refused to the Golden Horde.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some historians see Alexander's choice of subordination to the <a href="/wiki/Golden_Horde" title="Golden Horde">Golden Horde</a> as an important reaffirmation of East Slavs' Orthodox orientation (which begun under <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_the_Great" title="Vladimir the Great">Vladimir I of Kiev</a> and his grandmother <a href="/wiki/Olga_of_Kiev" title="Olga of Kiev">Olga</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Orlando_Figes" title="Orlando Figes">Orlando Figes</a> mentions that "Nevsky's collaboration was no doubt motivated by his distrust of the West, which he regarded as a greater threat to Orthodox Russia than the Golden Horde".<sup id="cite_ref-Figes_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Figes-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death_and_burial">Death and burial</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Nevsky&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Death and burial"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Alexander_nevskiy_archangelskiy_sobor.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Alexander_nevskiy_archangelskiy_sobor.jpg/220px-Alexander_nevskiy_archangelskiy_sobor.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="302" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Alexander_nevskiy_archangelskiy_sobor.jpg/330px-Alexander_nevskiy_archangelskiy_sobor.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Alexander_nevskiy_archangelskiy_sobor.jpg/440px-Alexander_nevskiy_archangelskiy_sobor.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1812" data-file-height="2488" /></a><figcaption>Saint Alexander Nevsky, 1666 <a href="/wiki/Fresco" title="Fresco">fresco</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Cathedral_of_the_Archangel" title="Cathedral of the Archangel">Cathedral of the Archangel</a>, Moscow</figcaption></figure> <p>On 14 November 1263, while returning from <a href="/wiki/Sarai_(city)" title="Sarai (city)">Sarai</a> on one of his frequent visits to the Horde, Alexander died in the town of <a href="/wiki/Gorodets,_Nizhny_Novgorod_Oblast" title="Gorodets, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast">Gorodets</a>-on-the-<a href="/wiki/Volga" title="Volga">Volga</a>. On 23 November 1263, he was buried in the church of the Monastery of the Nativity of the Holy Mother of God in <a href="/wiki/Vladimir,_Russia" title="Vladimir, Russia">Vladimir</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-oca_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oca-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From the <i>Second Pskovian Chronicle</i>:<sup id="cite_ref-Begunov1955p11-15_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Begunov1955p11-15-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"> <p>Returning from the Golden Horde, the Great Prince Alexander, reached the city of Nizhny Novgorod, and remained there for several days in good health, but when he reached the city of Gorodets he fell ill... </p><p>Great Prince Alexander, who was always firm in his faith in God, gave up this worldly kingdom ... And then he gave up his soul to God and died in peace on 12 November [1263], on the day when the Holy Apostle Philip is remembered... </p><p>At this burial Metropolitan Archbishop Cyril said, 'My children, you should know that the sun of the Suzdalian land has set. There will never be another prince like him in the Suzdalian land.' </p><p>And the priests and deacons and monks, the poor and the wealthy, and all the people said: 'It is our end.' </p> </blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Veneration_and_sainthood">Veneration and sainthood</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Nevsky&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Veneration and sainthood"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above n" style="font-size:125%;background-color:gold;"><div class="honorific-prefix" style="display:inline;font-size: 77%; font-weight: normal;">Saint</div><br /><div style="display:inline;" class="fn">Alexander Nevsky</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Alexander_Newski.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Alexander_Newski.jpg/220px-Alexander_Newski.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="281" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Alexander_Newski.jpg/330px-Alexander_Newski.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Alexander_Newski.jpg/440px-Alexander_Newski.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1394" data-file-height="1780" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:gold;"><a href="/wiki/Grand_Prince_of_Vladimir" title="Grand Prince of Vladimir">Grand Prince of Vladimir</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Venerated in</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Eastern Orthodox Church</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Canonization" title="Canonization">Canonized</a></th><td class="infobox-data">1547 by <a href="/wiki/Macarius,_Metropolitan_of_Moscow" title="Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow">Metropolite Macarius</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Major <a href="/wiki/Shrine" title="Shrine">shrine</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Vladimir,_Russia" title="Vladimir, Russia">Vladimir</a>; <a href="/wiki/Pereslavl-Zalessky" title="Pereslavl-Zalessky">Pereslavl-Zalessky</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saint_Petersburg" title="Saint Petersburg">Saint Petersburg</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Calendar_of_saints" title="Calendar of saints">Feast</a></th><td class="infobox-data">23 November (Repose)<br />2 May (<a href="/wiki/Synaxis" title="Synaxis">Synaxis</a> of the Saints of Rosand Yaroslavl)<br />30 August (Translation of <a href="/wiki/Relic" title="Relic">relics</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Patron_saint" title="Patron saint">Patronage</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Russian Ground Forces and Russian Naval Infantry</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The veneration of Alexander began almost immediately after his burial, when he reportedly extended his hand for the prayer of absolution.<sup id="cite_ref-oca_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oca-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Orthodox tradition, Alexander foresaw his death and before this took strict <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Orthodox Christian</a> monastic vows, called <a href="/wiki/Great_Schema" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Schema">Great Schema</a>, and took the name Alexey. </p><p>In 1380, Alexander's remains were uncovered in response to a <a href="/wiki/Vision_(religion)" class="mw-redirect" title="Vision (religion)">vision</a> before the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kulikovo" title="Battle of Kulikovo">Battle of Kulikovo</a> and found to be <a href="/wiki/Incorrupt" class="mw-redirect" title="Incorrupt">incorrupt</a>. The relics were then placed in a shrine in the church. Alexander was canonized as a saint of the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_Church" title="Russian Orthodox Church">Russian Orthodox Church</a> by <a href="/wiki/Macarius,_Metropolitan_of_Moscow" title="Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow">Metropolitan Macarius</a> in 1547.<sup id="cite_ref-oca_23-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oca-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Opening_of_relics_03.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Opening_of_relics_03.jpg/220px-Opening_of_relics_03.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="166" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Opening_of_relics_03.jpg/330px-Opening_of_relics_03.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Opening_of_relics_03.jpg 2x" data-file-width="394" data-file-height="298" /></a><figcaption>1922 opening of relics of Alexander Nevsky</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1695, a new wooden reliquary was made in Moscow, and the relics were placed in it in 1697.<sup id="cite_ref-oca_23-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oca-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By order of <a href="/wiki/Peter_the_Great" title="Peter the Great">Peter the Great</a>, the relics were then removed from Vladimir on 11 August 1723 and transported to <a href="/wiki/Shlisselburg" title="Shlisselburg">Shlisselburg</a>, arriving there on 20 September.<sup id="cite_ref-oca_23-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oca-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There they were kept until 1724, when they were brought to <a href="/wiki/Saint_Petersburg" title="Saint Petersburg">Saint Petersburg</a> and installed in the <a href="/wiki/Annunciation_Church_of_the_Alexander_Nevsky_Lavra" title="Annunciation Church of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra">Annunciation Church of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra</a> on 30 August.<sup id="cite_ref-oca_23-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oca-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1753, a <a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE" class="extiw" title="ru:Рака Александра Невского">silver shrine with sarcophagus</a> for the relics, made with 90 pounds of silver, was donated by Empress <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_of_Russia" title="Elizabeth of Russia">Elizabeth of Russia</a>. With the completion of the <a href="/wiki/Holy_Trinity_Cathedral_of_the_Alexander_Nevsky_Lavra" title="Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra">Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra</a> in 1790, the shrine and relics were transferred there at its consecration on 30 August, one of the saint's feast days.<sup id="cite_ref-oca_23-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oca-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 1922, during the <a href="/wiki/1922_confiscation_of_Russian_Orthodox_Church_property" class="mw-redirect" title="1922 confiscation of Russian Orthodox Church property">general confiscation of Russian Orthodox Church property</a>, the sarcophagus was opened and the relics removed;<sup id="cite_ref-RM_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RM-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the elaborate silver shrine was transferred to the <a href="/wiki/Hermitage_Museum" title="Hermitage Museum">Hermitage Museum</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-RM_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RM-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The relics were put into storage at the <a href="/wiki/Museum_of_the_History_of_Religion" title="Museum of the History of Religion">Museum of the History of Religion</a> and Atheism, before being returned to the Holy Trinity Cathedral in 1989.<sup id="cite_ref-RM_24-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RM-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 10 May 2023, the Hermitage Museum and Alexander Nevsky Lavra signed a contract for the transfer of the shrine to Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra for a period of 49 years.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 12 September 2023, <a href="/wiki/Patriarch_Kirill_of_Moscow" title="Patriarch Kirill of Moscow">Patriarch Kirill of Moscow</a> placed the relics back into the silver sarcophagus.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Alexander's principal <a href="/wiki/Feast_day" class="mw-redirect" title="Feast day">feast day</a> is 23 November. A second feast day was instituted on 30 August in commemoration of the placing of his relics in the Annunciation Church. He is also commemorated in common with other saints of <a href="/wiki/Rostov,_Yaroslavl_Oblast" title="Rostov, Yaroslavl Oblast">Rostov</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yaroslavl" title="Yaroslavl">Yaroslavl</a> on 23 May. </p><p>In February 2024, it was announced that the memory of Saint Alexander Nevsky had been removed from the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_liturgical_calendar" title="Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar">synaxarion</a> used by the <a href="/wiki/Orthodox_Church_of_Ukraine" title="Orthodox Church of Ukraine">Orthodox Church of Ukraine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Marriage_and_children">Marriage and children</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Nevsky&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Marriage and children"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to the <i><a href="/wiki/Novgorod_First_Chronicle" title="Novgorod First Chronicle">Novgorod First Chronicle</a></i>, Alexander married first a daughter of Bryacheslav Vasilkovich, Prince of <a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Polotsk" title="Principality of Polotsk">Polotsk</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vitebsk" title="Vitebsk">Vitebsk</a>, in 1239. Her name is not given in the chronicle. Genealogies name her as Paraskeviya or Alexandra (possibly birth and marital names respectively). They had five children: </p> <ul><li>Vasily Alexandrovich, <a href="/wiki/Princes_of_Novgorod" class="mw-redirect" title="Princes of Novgorod">Prince of Novgorod</a> (c. 1239–1271). He was betrothed to <a href="/wiki/Princess_Kristina_of_Norway" class="mw-redirect" title="Princess Kristina of Norway">Princess Kristina of Norway</a> in 1251. The marriage contract was broken. Kristina went on to marry <a href="/wiki/Philip_of_Castile" title="Philip of Castile">Felipe of Castile</a>, a son of <a href="/wiki/Ferdinand_III_of_Castile" title="Ferdinand III of Castile">Ferdinand III of Castile</a> and <a href="/wiki/Elisabeth_of_Hohenstaufen" class="mw-redirect" title="Elisabeth of Hohenstaufen">Elisabeth of Hohenstaufen</a>.</li> <li>Eudoxia Alexandrovna. Married Konstantin Rostislavich, Prince of <a href="/wiki/Smolensk" title="Smolensk">Smolensk</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dmitry_of_Pereslavl" title="Dmitry of Pereslavl">Dmitry of Pereslavl</a> (c. 1250–1294).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrey_of_Gorodets" title="Andrey of Gorodets">Andrey of Gorodets</a> (c. 1255 – 27 July 1304).</li></ul> <p>He married a second wife named Vasilisa or Vassa<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> shortly before his death. They had one son. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_of_Moscow" title="Daniel of Moscow">Daniel of Moscow</a> (1261 – 4 March/5 March 1303).<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Nevsky&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:AlexanderNevskyCathedral-Sofia-6.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/AlexanderNevskyCathedral-Sofia-6.jpg/220px-AlexanderNevskyCathedral-Sofia-6.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/AlexanderNevskyCathedral-Sofia-6.jpg/330px-AlexanderNevskyCathedral-Sofia-6.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/AlexanderNevskyCathedral-Sofia-6.jpg/440px-AlexanderNevskyCathedral-Sofia-6.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3127" data-file-height="1986" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Nevsky_Cathedral,_Sofia" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia">Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia</a></figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_(2010.06.26)_-_panoramio.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%282010.06.26%29_-_panoramio.jpg/160px-%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%282010.06.26%29_-_panoramio.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="240" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%282010.06.26%29_-_panoramio.jpg/240px-%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%282010.06.26%29_-_panoramio.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%282010.06.26%29_-_panoramio.jpg/320px-%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%282010.06.26%29_-_panoramio.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="1500" /></a><figcaption>A statue of Alexander Nevsky in <a href="/wiki/Gorodets,_Nizhny_Novgorod_Oblast" title="Gorodets, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast">Gorodets</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Some of Alexander's policies on the Western border were continued by his grandson-in-law, <a href="/wiki/Daumantas_of_Pskov" title="Daumantas of Pskov">Daumantas of Pskov</a>, who was also beatified in the 16th century. In the late 13th century, a <a href="/wiki/Chronicle" title="Chronicle">chronicle</a> was compiled called the <i><a href="/wiki/Life_of_Alexander_Nevsky" title="Life of Alexander Nevsky">Life of Alexander Nevsky</a></i> (Житие Александра Невского), in which he is depicted as an ideal prince-soldier and defender of Russia. </p><p>On 21 May 1725, the empress <a href="/wiki/Catherine_I_of_Russia" title="Catherine I of Russia">Catherine I</a> introduced the <a href="/wiki/Imperial_Order_of_St._Alexander_Nevsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperial Order of St. Alexander Nevsky">Imperial Order of St. Alexander Nevsky</a> as one of the highest <a href="/wiki/List_of_military_decorations" title="List of military decorations">decorations</a> in the land. During <a href="/wiki/Great_Patriotic_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Patriotic War">World War II</a>, on 29 July 1942, the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet</a> authorities introduced an <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Alexander_Nevsky" title="Order of Alexander Nevsky">Order of Alexander Nevsky</a> to revive the memory of Alexander's struggle with the Germans. There was also an earlier <a href="/wiki/Orders,_decorations,_and_medals_of_Bulgaria" title="Orders, decorations, and medals of Bulgaria">Bulgarian Order</a> dedicated to Saint Alexander which was founded on 25 December 1881, which ceased to exist when the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_Bulgaria" title="People's Republic of Bulgaria">People's Republic</a> was declared on 16 September 1946. </p><p>In 1938, <a href="/wiki/Sergei_Eisenstein" title="Sergei Eisenstein">Sergei Eisenstein</a> made one of his most acclaimed films, <i><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Nevsky_(film)" title="Alexander Nevsky (film)">Alexander Nevsky</a></i>, about Alexander's victory over the Teutonic Knights. The <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Nevsky_(Prokofiev)" title="Alexander Nevsky (Prokofiev)">soundtrack</a> for the film was written by <a href="/wiki/Sergei_Prokofiev" title="Sergei Prokofiev">Sergei Prokofiev</a>, who also reworked the score into a concert <a href="/wiki/Cantata" title="Cantata">cantata</a>. Today the film is renowned for its extraordinary battle on ice sequence, which has served as inspiration for countless other films. In the picture, Nevsky used a number of Russian <a href="/wiki/Proverb" title="Proverb">proverbs</a>, tying Nevsky firmly to Russian tradition.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The famous proverbial phrase (paraphrasing Matthew 26:52), "Whoever will come to us with a sword, from a sword will perish," is a phrase that is often attributed to Alexander Nevsky, though it was not in fact said by him; it comes from Eisenstein's film, where it was said by actor <a href="/wiki/Nikolay_Cherkasov" title="Nikolay Cherkasov">Nikolai Cherkasov</a>. </p><p>There is a long tradition of Russian naval vessels bearing Nevsky's name, such as the 19th-century propeller frigate <i>Alexander Nevsky</i> and <a href="/wiki/Russian_submarine_Alexander_Nevsky_(K-550)" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian submarine Alexander Nevsky (K-550)"><i>K-550</i> <i>Alexander Nevsky</i></a>, a nuclear powered <a href="/wiki/Ballistic_missile_submarine" title="Ballistic missile submarine">ballistic missile submarine</a> currently in service with the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Navy" title="Russian Navy">Russian Navy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Alexander Nevsky's fame was spread wherever Imperial Russia had a strong influence; thus numerous cathedrals and churches were dedicated to him, including the <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Nevsky_Cathedral,_Sofia" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia">Patriarchal Cathedral</a> in <a href="/wiki/Sofia" title="Sofia">Sofia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bulgaria" title="Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a>; the <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Nevsky_Cathedral,_Tallinn" title="Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Tallinn">Cathedral church</a> in <a href="/wiki/Tallinn" title="Tallinn">Tallinn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Estonia" title="Estonia">Estonia</a>; the <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Nevsky_Cathedral,_%C5%81%C3%B3d%C5%BA" title="Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Łódź">Cathedral church</a> in <a href="/wiki/%C5%81%C3%B3d%C5%BA" title="Łódź">Łódź</a>, <a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a>; the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in <a href="/wiki/Ungheni,_Moldova" class="mw-redirect" title="Ungheni, Moldova">Ungheni</a>, <a href="/wiki/Moldova" title="Moldova">Moldova</a>. </p><p>On 24 September 2008, Alexander Nevsky was declared the main hero of Russia's history by popular vote, as reported by the <i><a href="/wiki/Kommersant" title="Kommersant">Kommersant</a></i> newspaper. In December 2008, he was voted the greatest Russian in the <i><a href="/wiki/Name_of_Russia_(Russia_TV)" title="Name of Russia (Russia TV)">Name of Russia</a></i> television poll.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the 2021 Moscow Victory Day Parade, a small historical segment of the parade featured Russian soldiers dressed in historical M1945 Red Army uniforms carrying out the Soviet combat banners which received the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Alexander_Nevsky" title="Order of Alexander Nevsky">Order of Alexander Nevsky</a> during the war. This segment coincided with the 800th anniversary since the birth of Alexander Nevsky in 1221.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Nevsky&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Life_of_Alexander_Nevsky_(illuminated_manuscript)" title="Life of Alexander Nevsky (illuminated manuscript)"><i>Life of Alexander Nevsky</i> (illuminated manuscript)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Nevsky_Cathedral_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexander Nevsky Cathedral (disambiguation)">Alexander Nevsky Cathedral</a> – an incomplete listing of Eastern Orthodox cathedrals which bear his name</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Family_tree_of_Russian_monarchs" title="Family tree of Russian monarchs">Family tree of Russian monarchs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chapel_of_Saint_Alexander_Nevsky_(Fergana)" class="mw-redirect" title="Chapel of Saint Alexander Nevsky (Fergana)">Chapel of Saint Alexander Nevsky (Fergana)</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Nevsky&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output 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Neva'.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Nevsky&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free 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Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.maxknow.ru/images/upload/articles45/1160.htm">the original</a> on 22 February 2015.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%8B+%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B8+%5BQuestions+of+History%5D&rft.atitle=%D0%9E+%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5+%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F+%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B0+%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=174-176&rft.date=1986&rft.au=V.A.+Kuchkin&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.maxknow.ru%2Fimages%2Fupload%2Farticles45%2F1160.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlexander+Nevsky" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEVälimäki2022xv,_...he_became_one_of_the_great_heroes_of_Russian_history,_a_defender_of_Russia_against_alien_forces._This_was,_however,_a_later_development-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVälimäki2022xv,_...he_became_one_of_the_great_heroes_of_Russian_history,_a_defender_of_Russia_against_alien_forces._This_was,_however,_a_later_development_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFVälimäki2022">Välimäki 2022</a>, xv, ...he became one of the great heroes of Russian history, a defender of Russia against alien forces. This was, however, a later development.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.abc-people.com/data/nevskiy/dat13.htm">"The Faithful Saint Prince Alexandr Nevsky"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211023144850/http://www.abc-people.com/data/nevskiy/dat13.htm">Archived</a> 23 October 2021 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> <span class="languageicon">(in Russian)</span>, article read on 4 November 2010.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Begunov1955p11-15-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Begunov1955p11-15_7-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Begunov1955p11-15_7-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Begunov, K., translator, <i>Second Pskovian Chronicle</i>, ("Isbornik", Moscow, 1955) pp. 11–15.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMurray2006" class="citation book cs1">Murray, Alan V. (2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=rETPEAAAQBAJ"><i>The Crusades [4 volumes]: An Encyclopedia [4 volumes]</i></a>. Bloomsbury Publishing US. p. 42. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-57607-863-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-57607-863-1"><bdi>978-1-57607-863-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Crusades+%5B4+volumes%5D%3A+An+Encyclopedia+%5B4+volumes%5D&rft.pages=42&rft.pub=Bloomsbury+Publishing+US&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=978-1-57607-863-1&rft.aulast=Murray&rft.aufirst=Alan+V.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DrETPEAAAQBAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlexander+Nevsky" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFonnesberg-Schmidt2007216–217In_1240_new_campaigns_were_launched..._first_was_organized_by_the_Swedes..._obtained_papal_authorization_in_1237-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFonnesberg-Schmidt2007216–217In_1240_new_campaigns_were_launched..._first_was_organized_by_the_Swedes..._obtained_papal_authorization_in_1237_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFonnesberg-Schmidt2007">Fonnesberg-Schmidt 2007</a>, pp. 216–217, In 1240 new campaigns were launched... first was organized by the Swedes... obtained papal authorization in 1237.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFonnesberg-Schmidt2007216–217The_Russian_victory_was_later_depicted_as_an_event_of_great_national_importance_and_Prince_Alexander_was_given_the_sobriquet_"Nevskii"-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFonnesberg-Schmidt2007216–217The_Russian_victory_was_later_depicted_as_an_event_of_great_national_importance_and_Prince_Alexander_was_given_the_sobriquet_"Nevskii"_10-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFonnesberg-Schmidt2007">Fonnesberg-Schmidt 2007</a>, pp. 216–217, The Russian victory was later depicted as an event of great national importance and Prince Alexander was given the sobriquet "Nevskii".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFonnesberg-Schmidt2007218-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFonnesberg-Schmidt2007218_11-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFonnesberg-Schmidt2007218_11-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFonnesberg-Schmidt2007218_11-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFonnesberg-Schmidt2007218_11-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFonnesberg-Schmidt2007218_11-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFonnesberg-Schmidt2007">Fonnesberg-Schmidt 2007</a>, p. 218.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFonnesberg-Schmidt2007218After_pleas_from_Novgorod_Alexander_returned_in_1241_and_marched_against_Kopor'e._Having_conquered_the_fortress_and_captured_the_remaining_Latin_Christians,_he_executed_those_local_Votians_who_had_cooperated_with_the_invaders-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFonnesberg-Schmidt2007218After_pleas_from_Novgorod_Alexander_returned_in_1241_and_marched_against_Kopor'e._Having_conquered_the_fortress_and_captured_the_remaining_Latin_Christians,_he_executed_those_local_Votians_who_had_cooperated_with_the_invaders_12-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFonnesberg-Schmidt2007">Fonnesberg-Schmidt 2007</a>, p. 218, After pleas from Novgorod Alexander returned in 1241 and marched against Kopor'e. 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Brill. p. 36. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-90-04-35214-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-90-04-35214-8"><bdi>978-90-04-35214-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+History+of+Russian+Law%3A+From+Ancient+Times+to+the+Council+Code+%28Ulozhenie%29+of+Tsar+Aleksei+Mikhailovich+of+1649&rft.pages=36&rft.pub=Brill&rft.date=2017&rft.isbn=978-90-04-35214-8&rft.aulast=Feldbrugge&rft.aufirst=Ferdinand+J.+M.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DTDI9DwAAQBAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlexander+Nevsky" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMartin2007" class="citation book cs1">Martin, Janet (2007). <i>Medieval Russia, 980–1584</i> (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 173. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0521859165" title="Special:BookSources/978-0521859165"><bdi>978-0521859165</bdi></a>. <q>The khans were recognized as suzerains of the Riurikid princes. Within the Rus' lands, however, they exercised their authority primarily through the dynasty. But the khans appointed and confirmed individual princes within the dynasty for each ruling position. Riurikid princes were, accordingly required to appear personally before the khans to pay obeisance and receive their patents to rule.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Medieval+Russia%2C+980%E2%80%931584&rft.place=Cambridge&rft.pages=173&rft.edition=2nd&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=2007&rft.isbn=978-0521859165&rft.aulast=Martin&rft.aufirst=Janet&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlexander+Nevsky" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMartin2007" class="citation book cs1">Martin, Janet (2007). <i>Medieval Russia, 980–1584</i> (2nd ed.). 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But Nevsky's realpolitik caused a problem for the chroniclers, particularly after he was made a saint by the Russian Church in 1547, for in their terms he had colluded with the infidel.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Story+of+Russia&rft.pages=38-39&rft.pub=Metropolitan+Books&rft.date=2022&rft.aulast=Figes&rft.aufirst=Orlando&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlexander+Nevsky" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Martin 2007, op. cit., pp. 168–170</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTarkiainen2008" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Tarkiainen, Kari (2008). <i>Sveriges Österland. 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Brill. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9789004155022" title="Special:BookSources/9789004155022"><bdi>9789004155022</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+popes+and+the+Baltic+crusades%2C+1147%E2%80%931254&rft.pub=Brill&rft.date=2007&rft.isbn=9789004155022&rft.aulast=Fonnesberg-Schmidt&rft.aufirst=Iben&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlexander+Nevsky" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFVälimäki2022" class="citation book cs1">Välimäki, Reima (December 2022). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=JwKfEAAAQBAJ"><i>Medievalism in Finland and Russia: Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Aspects</i></a>. 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Vol. 1 (11th ed.). p. 556.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Alexander+Nevsky%2C+Saint&rft.btitle=Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Britannica&rft.pages=556&rft.edition=11th&rft.date=1911&rft.aulast=Bain&rft.aufirst=Robert+Nisbet&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlexander+Nevsky" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Isoaho, Mari. <i>The Image of Aleksandr Nevskiy in Medieval Russia: Warrior and Saint (The Northern World; 21)</i>. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006 (hardcover, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/90-04-15101-X" title="Special:BookSources/90-04-15101-X">90-04-15101-X</a>).</li> <li>"Tale of the Life and Courage of the Pious and Great Prince Alexander [Nevsky]" in <i>Medieval Russia's Epics, Chronicles, and Tales</i>, ed. <a href="/wiki/Serge_Aleksandr_Zenkovsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Serge Aleksandr Zenkovsky">Serge Zenkovsky</a>, 224–235 (New York: Meridian, 1974)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Nevsky&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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