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Thu Jan 11 2001 at 2:12:21 Alexander Nevsky was the son of Grand Prince Yaroslav II of Russia. He was born in 1219 or 1220 at Pereyslavl, but was brought up in Novgorod and became its prince when his father became Grand Prince. While the Mongols were invading Russia from the east, other neighbors took the chance to come in from the west, and Novgorod, farther northwest than most Russian cities, took the brunt. The Finns, Livonians, and especially the Swedish were continually trying to attack Russian territory and cut off Russia s outlets to the Baltic Sea, and Alexander s first major triumph was in 1240 against the Swedish, who he defeated on the banks of the Neva River, earning the nickname of Nevsky. A local chief had had a vision with two Russian martyrs (Boris and Gleb, murdered by Sviatopolk I the Damned ) coming to help Alexander s forces, and Alexander himself had announced to his troops before the battle that God is not on the side of

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