Battle of the Neva
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The Battle of the Neva was fought between the Novgorod Republic, along with Karelians, and the Kingdom of Sweden, including Norwegian, Finnish and Tavastian forces, on the Neva River, near the settlem
Alexander Nevsky Fighting the Swedes, by Boris Chorikov
Battle of the Neva contributed to Alexander's sainthood
Alexander Nevsky
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Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky was Prince of Novgorod and Grand Prince of Vladimir.
Battle of the Neva
…Novgorod had a monopoly over the Karelian fur trade. The Swedish expansion was stopped at the Battle of the Neva by a Novgorodian army led by Prince Alexander Yaroslavich. The existence of the battle is known only from Russian sources. The first source to mention the battle is the Novgorod First Chronicle from the 14th…
Portrait in the Tsarsky titulyarnik, 1672
Alexander Newski
Execution of Vots and Chuds by Alexander Nevsky in Koporye, during the 1240–1241 Votia campaign (16th-century miniature)
1922 opening of Nevsky's relics