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.

* Alexander Nevsky ( 1220 – 1263 ), Prince of Novgorod and Grand Prince of Vladimir

* 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

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 Grothendieck's work during the ` Golden Age ' period at IHÉS established several unifying themes in algebraic geometry, number theory, topology, category theory and complex analysis.

La Malinche is the main protagonist in such works as the novel Feathered Serpent: A Novel of the Mexican Conquest by Colin Falconer, and The Golden Princess by Alexander Baron.

Alexander the false prophet Aeetes, the king of Colchis and father of the sorceress Medea, possessed the Golden Fleece.

On a trip through eastern Virginia, the German-born Miller had heard reports about a lush valley to the west which had been discovered by Governor Alexander Spotswood's legendary Knights of the Golden Horseshoe Expedition, and then moved his family down from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

During the events of Infinite Crisis, some of the surviving Golden Age characters, such as Wildcat and the Flash, are transported to the new " Earth-Two ", as created by Alexander Luthor, and seem to recall the existence of the original one, albeit vaguely.

* Boris Grekov and Alexander Yakubovski, The Golden Horde and its Downfall

Commonly regarded as the key figure of medieval Rus, Alexander was the grandson of Vsevolod the Big Nest and rose to legendary status on account of his military victories over the German and Swedish invaders while accepting to pay tribute to the powerful Golden Horde.

A decade later, Alexander died in the town of Gorodets-on-the-Volga on his way back from Sarai, the capital of the Golden Horde.

" Returning from the Golden Horde, the Great Prince Alexander,

Governor Alexander Spotswood's legendary Knights of the Golden Horseshoe Expedition of 1716 crossed the Blue Ridge at Swift Run Gap and reached the river at Elkton, VA. Settlers did not immediately follow, but someone who heard the reports and later became the first permanent settler in the Valley was Adam Miller ( Mueller ), who in 1727 staked out claims on the south fork of the Shenandoah River, near the line that now divides Rockingham County from Page County.

Batu's loyal vassal Alexander Nevsky in the Golden Horde | Horde

In addition, Alexander was nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, in 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1998, in the Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for Television category, but never won the award.

Alexander ( Nikolai Cherkasov ) refuses to accept a Mongol ambassador's offer to join the Golden Horde

The film appeared in competition at several film festivals, including Venice ( 2001 ); Sarlat, Amiens and Strasbourg ; Namur, where it received the SACD prize ; and Thessaloniki, where it won the first prize, the Golden Alexander.

* You: A Poem, ( juvenile ), illustrations by Martha Alexander, Golden Press, 1969.

The film went on to win the Golden Alexander prize for Best Feature-Length Film at the International Thessaloniki Film Festival and was screened at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.

Its libretto, by Vladimir Belsky, derives from Alexander Pushkin's 1834 poem The Tale of the Golden Cockerel, which in turn is based on two chapters of Tales of the Alhambra by Washington Irving.

Tod Williams was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay but lost to Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor for Sideways, and was nominated for the Golden Shell at the San Sebastian Film Festival but lost to Bahman Ghobadi for Turtles Can Fly.

Maximus is known for his ecclesiastic trips to the Golden Horde and mediation between the quarreling princes of the Northeastern Russia ( e. g., Dmitry of Pereslavl and Andrey of Gorodets, sons of Alexander Nevsky ).

His father was Alexander Chekhov ( brother of playwright Anton Chekhov ) and his mother was Natalya Golden, the eldest of three Jewish sisters.

In 1263, Alexander Nevsky died in Gorodets on his way back to Novgorod from the Golden Horde.

" Queen of Shemakha " is a major protagonist in " The Tale of the Golden Cockerel " by Alexander Pushkin and opera " The Golden Cockerel " by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov.

They achieved popularity after moving to Los Angeles in 1942, where their new manager, James " Woodie " Alexander, helped fashion a new style that went beyond imitating the Soul Stirrers and the Golden Gate Quartet, the other reigning quartet of the era.