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The Medieval Church · c. 1280–1290
The Life of Alexander Nevsky
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What it is
The prince who defeated Swedes and Teutonic knights while submitting to the Mongols, presented as both a warrior and a saint.
Why it lasted
The founding text of a Russian ideal that fuses military defence of Orthodoxy with political accommodation, and endlessly reused ever since.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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