Quiz on Saints’ Lives

In the XVIII-XIX centuries, Saint Blessed Prince Alexander Nevsky became one of the most revered national saints in Russia.
Peter the Great, who built the new capital of the country, St. Petersburg, on the lands conquered from the Swedes, saw a certain symbolic meaning in the fact that the city was founded near the place where in 1240 the Novgorod prince Alexander Yaroslavich defeated the same Swedes. Henceforth, the heavenly patronage of Alexander Nevsky was seen as a pledge of Russia's future final victory over its long-standing historical enemy.
In 1713 the Holy Trinity Alexander Nevsky Monastery (since 1797 - the Lavra) was founded on the left bank of the Neva River. On 30 August 1724, on the day of the three-year anniversary of the conclusion of the Peace of Nystadt, Peter the Great personally brought the relics of the holy prince Alexander Nevsky, which had arrived by boat from Vladimir, into the Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary built on the territory of the monastery.