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* Alexander Nevsky ( 1220 – 1263 ), Prince of Novgorod and Grand Prince of Vladimir
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Nikolai Cherkasov, the Russian actor who has played such heroic roles as Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible, performs the lanky Don Quixote, and does so with a simple dignity that bridges the inner nobility and the surface absurdity of this poignant man.
* 1242 – During a battle on the ice of Lake Peipus, Russian forces, led by Alexander Nevsky, rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.
* Knight of the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky of Russia-1908
Category: Order of St. Alexander Nevsky recipients
Alexander Nevsky in the Golden Horde | Horde
In the mid-13th century, Alexander Nevsky, elected prince of Novgorod, acquired heroic status as the result of major victories over the Teutonic Knights and the Swedes.
Daniil Aleksandrovich, the youngest son of Alexander Nevsky, founded the principality of Moscow ( known as Muscovy in English ), which eventually expelled the Tatars from Russia.
In December 2008 Stalin was voted third in the nationwide television project Name of Russia ( narrowly behind 13th century prince Alexander Nevsky and Pyotr Stolypin, one of Nicholas II's prime ministers ).
* 1240 – Swedish – Novgorodian Wars: a Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.
To commemorate the 250th anniversary of Euler's birth, the headstone was moved in 1956, together with his remains, to the 18th-century necropolis at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery.
Euler's grave at the Alexander Nevsky Lavra | Alexander Nevsky Monastery
* 1220 – Saint Alexander Nevsky ( d. 1263 )
* 1725 – The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by Empress Catherine I.
It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
Following services in Copenhagen's Russian Orthodox Alexander Nevsky Church, the Empress was interred at Roskilde Cathedral.
It is a site of numerous major historical events, including the Battle of the Neva in 1240 which gave Alexander Nevsky his name, the founding of Saint Petersburg in 1703, and the Siege of Leningrad by the German army during World War II.
** Alexander Nevsky ( Repose, Russian Orthodox Church )
Screenshot from Sergei Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky ( film ) | Alexander Nevsky.
Alexander and 1220
Around 1220 Alexander II of Scotland granted the lands to Sir John Maxwell, making him Warden of the West March.
Alexander Nevsky (, Aleksandr Yaroslavich Nevskiy ; ; 30 May 1220 – 14 November 1263, proclaimed Saint of the Russian Orthodox Church by Metropolite Macarius in 1547 ) was the Prince of Novgorod and Grand Prince of Vladimir during some of the most trying times in the city's history.
* Alexander Essebiensis ( Alexander of Ashby ) ( c. 1220 ), English theologian and poet
* Alexander Nevsky ( 30 May 1220 – 14 November 1263 ).
The Order of Alexander Nevsky () is an order of merit of the Russian Federation named in honour of saint Alexander Nevsky ( 1220 – 1263 ) and bestowed to civil servants for twenty years or more of highly meritorious service.
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Aristotle (, Aristotélēs ) ( 384 BC – 322 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.
* 1812 – Alexander Herzen, Russian writer ( d. 1870 )
* 1871 – Prince Alexander John of Wales ( d. 1871 )
* 1820 – Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.
* 1823 – Alexander Ostrovsky, Russian playwright ( d. 1886 )
* 1948 – Alexander Onassis, American Greek socialite, son of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis ( d. 1973 )
* 1921 – Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg ( d. 1996 )
* 1826 – Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer ( d. 1915 )
* 1881 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1955 )
* 1886 – John Alexander Douglas McCurdy Canadian pilot and engineer ( d. 1961 )
* 1981 – Alexander Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial artist
* 1890 – Alexander F. Mozhayskiy, Russian aviation pioneer ( b. 1825 )
* 2000 – Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, Scottish jurist ( b. 1924 )
* 2005 – Alexander Brott, Canadian violinist and composer ( b. 1915 )
Eastern European theorists include Pyotr Stolypin ( 1862 – 1911 ) and Alexander Chayanov ( 1888 – 1939 ) in Russia ; Adolph Wagner ( 1835 – 1917 ), and Karl Oldenberg in Germany, and Bolesław Limanowski ( 1835 – 1935 ) in Poland.
* Bell, John D. Peasants in Power: Alexander Stamboliski and the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union, 1899 – 1923 ( 1923 )
Alexander Mackenzie, PC ( January 28, 1822 – April 17, 1892 ), a building contractor and newspaper editor, was the second Prime Minister of Canada from November 7, 1873 to October 8, 1878.
* William Alexander Henry – September 30, 1875
* 1893 – Alexander of Greece ( d. 1920 )
* 1824 – Maria Alexandrovna, German wife of Alexander II of Russia ( d. 1880 )
* 1939 – Alexander Watson, American ambassador and diplomat
* 1915 – Joan Alexander, American actress ( d. 2009 )
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