- Same year the Emperor Peter I ordered to move the relics of Alexander Nevsky from Vladimir to the monastery. There is a saying, that he even did it personally.
- Here, Picasso married his first wife Olga Khokhlova. The cathedral also claims to hold the rib of Alexander Nevsky as one of its relics.
- "The relics of St. Alexander Nevsky were solemnly transferred from Vladimir to the new capital of Russia September 12, 1724, by decree of Peter the Great."
- Alexander Nevsky was the Grand Prince of Vladimir and Novgorod, in the 13th century, during some of the most difficult times of Kievan Rus' history.
- The main monastery's church is the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity. It stores the relics of the Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky which in August 1724 were transferred...
- A reliquary containing holy relics of fifteen saints of the Orthodox Church from different eras was opened at St. Alexander Nevsky Lavra in St. Petersburg.
- Relics of 13 saints, including those of 13th century national hero Prince Alexander Nevsky, have been stolen from a church in St. Petersburg...
- In 1724, Nevsky’s relics were transferred to the Annunciation Church of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in Saint Petersburg.
- With great honors, the grave was opened and frozen in amazement - before the gathered there was an imperishable body - the relics of Alexander Nevsky.
- With the completion of the Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in 1790, the shrine and relics were transferred there at its consecration on 30...