![]() ![]() While Alexander Nevsky was venerated as a saint, his accession to national hero began during the rule of Peter the Great, the first Russian emperor. Nevsky’s military successes, celebrated in Russia as the victory of Orthodox Christianity over Catholicism, eventually led to his canonization by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1547. He collaborated with the Mongol conquerors by assisting them in their tax demands, going so far as to force rebellious Novgorod to submit to the yoke. Nevsky was also a politician of his time. In the Battle on the Ice, on the frozen Lake Chudskoye (Lake Peipus), which would determine whether Eastern Orthodox or Western Catholic Christianity would take primacy in the region, Alexander defeated the Germans, who then stopped their eastward expansion. His next military success came in repelling the Germanic Teutonic Knights, sent by the pope as a part of the Northern Crusades. Petersburg, gave Alexander his moniker-Nevsky. The victory at the Neva river, the signature waterway of St. In 1240, he defeated the invading Swedish forces at the confluence of the rivers Izhora and Neva. In 1236, Alexander was invited by the people of Novgorod to become their prince. ![]() What does a thirteenth-century prince, famous for defeating German and Swedish invaders in northern Russian lands, have to do with the war-torn Ukrainian city of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov? His uninvited commemoration in Ukraine is not just a statue, it is an ideological statement.Īlexander was born the son of Yaroslav II, grand prince of Vladimir, then the most powerful principality of Russia. In the devastated city, which stands as a gruesome symbol of Russian brutality, Beglov unveiled a newly erected statue to Alexander Nevsky, a prince of medieval Rus’ and a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church. Petersburg, with taking charge of Mariupol’s rebuilding and restoration. Previously, Vladimir Putin had tasked Beglov, as well as the whole city of St. Petersburg, visited the war-ravaged Ukrainian city of Mariupol, currently occupied by Putin’s Russia. In September 2022, Alexander Beglov, the governor of St. How? Through mythmaking, combined with the Nietzschean “use and abuse of history.” For the insatiable Russia, occupation of the land does not suffice: the largest country in the world is attempting to occupy mental spaces as well and to impose a new master narrative of Great Mother Russia. Russia’s so-called “special military operation” has a neo-imperial twist to it. Careers, Fellowships, and Internships Open/Close.Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition.Science and Technology Innovation Program.Refugee and Forced Displacement Initiative.The Middle East and North Africa Workforce Development Initiative.Kissinger Institute on China and the United States.Nuclear Proliferation International History Project.North Korea International Documentation Project.Environmental Change and Security Program.Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy. ![]()
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