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Right-believing Demetrios Donskoy Grand Prince of Moscow
Also known as Dmitry Donskoy · Demetrius of the Don
Grand Prince of Moscow who, blessed by St Sergius of Radonezh, led the Russian princes to victory over the Tatars at Kulikovo, and ruled in piety and the building up of the Church.
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Notes
Husband of St Euphrosyne (Eudokia) of Moscow (May 17).
Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints