Alexander Nevsky, Prince of Novgorod | High quality serigraph icon on wood | Made in Russia

Alexander Nevsky, Prince of Novgorod (1236-1251) and Grand Prince of Vladimir (from 1252), was born about May 13, 1221 (according to the old historiographic tradition - May 30, 1220) in the family of Prince Yaroslav Vsevolodovich and Princess Feodosia, who was a daughter of Prince Mstislav the Daring.  His paternal grandfather was Vsevolod the Big Nest.

In 1228 Yaroslav II of Russia, the Grand Prince of Novgorod, came into conflict with Novgorodians and was forced to return to his patrimony - Pereyaslavl-Zalessky. Nevertheless in Novgorod he left his two children - Feodor and Alexander in charge of Boyars. After the death of Feodor in 1236, Alexander, being Yaroslav’s oldest heir, enthroned in Novgorod. In 1239 he married a Polotsk Princess - Alexandra Bryachislavna.