Relicaries of Alexander Nevsky

The book is dedicated to the tombs of Alexander Nevsky. In the medieval culture of the reelcaries, in which the relics of the saints were endowed with sacred properties. Alexander Nevsky was buried in the Cathedral of the God-Roditsa-Knozelnoye monastery in Vladimir, and the first container of his remains was a white-stone sarcophagus. In 1697, the relics were solemnly transferred to gilded cancer, made the day before in the Golden Chamber of the Moscow Kremlin.

In this cancer, the relics of Alexander Nevsky by order of Peter I were transferred from Vladimir to St. Petersburg in 1723-1724. In the middle of the XVIII century. For the crayfish of Alexander Nevsky, a silver tomb was made with figures of angels and candelabras. In this form, the funeral complex of the Holy Prince existed until 1922, when the opening of the relics was performed. The remains of Alexander Nevsky for many years after that were stored in museum funds in Moscow and Leningrad, and cancer and tomb entered the Hermitage. In 1989, the relics of the Church took place. The articles and documents published in the present building trace the history of the famous relics of Alexander Nevsky.