![]() ![]() But that battle was not accidental or devoid of profound meanings. ![]() Generally speaking, much fewer people inhabited our planet almost 800 years ago and there were even fewer qualified troops. Indeed there were not very many people fighting on the banks of the Neva in 1240. What kind of groundbreaking event are you talking about?Īnd there’s no way to rein them in or bring them down a peg… They say this was not even a battle, but rather a skirmish of two small detachments on the outskirts of Novgorod lands. ![]() The above-said observations do not seem to apply to Alexander Nevsky who got the highest number of votes during the Face of Russia poll arranged during the TV show on VGTRK Channel – more than such heroes as Dmitry Donskoi and Suvorov, Peter the Great and Lomonosov, Pushkin and Dostoyevsky, Lenin and Stalin.Ī number of avowed and reputable intellectuals make public statements with an insatiable self-destructive passion, representing the Battle on the Neva as just an insignificant episode in the history of ancient Rus’. We seem to know all about Harry Potter and almost nothing about Alyosha Popovich. We know more about 300 Spartans, than about the detachment of Evpatiy Kolovrat we know a lot more about the rebellion of Roman slaves and their Thracian leader Spartacus, than about the Don Cossack Kondratiy Bulavin. It drives us in our attempts to simplify, belittle and shade whatever was done by our great ancestors, then to compare, juxtapose and parallel their exploits with the feats of other nations, and eventually to remember the great deeds of other nations more often than our own and, what is worse, to love foreign heroes more than ours. It’s no secret that one of the most distinguishing characteristics of our nation is the tendency to self-humiliation, based on inherited modesty. People gave this battle the name of Nevskaya and started calling Alexander nothing less than his now famous Prince Alexander Nevsky! On July 22, 1240, Novgorod Prince Alexander Yaroslavich smashed the Swedish force on the spit of rivers Neva and Izhora. ![]()
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