Ulyana of Tver

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Ulyana Alexandrovna of Tver ( Russian : Ульяна Александровна Тверская, * around 1325 - † March 17, 1391 ,) was a daughter of Prince Alexander of Tver and of Anastasia von Halytsch , daughter of Juri I of Galicia . She was the second wife of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Algirdas .

After Uzbek Khan murdered her father and older brother in 1339 , Ulyana came into the care of Simeon of Moscow , who married Ulyana's older sister Maria in 1347 .

In 1349, Algirdas, the Grand Duke of Lithuania, sent ambassadors to the Golden Horde to propose to Khan Dschani Beg to conclude an alliance against Prince Simeon of Moscow. This proposal was not accepted and the envoys, including Algirda's brother Karijotas , were arrested and held hostage for a ransom. In 1350 Algirdas made peace with Simeon and married Simeon's sister-in-law Ulyana. Simeon asked Metropolitan Theognostus beforehand whether a Christian could even be married to a pagan ruler . In the same year, Algirda's brother Liubartas Olga, daughter of Konstantin Wassiljewitsch von Rostov , married Simeon's niece.

According to the study by Polish historian Jan Tęgowski , Uljana and Algirdas each had eight sons and daughters (other sources provide different figures). Apparently, in contrast to the children from Algirda's first marriage to Maria of Vitebsk , the children were brought up in a pagan culture. Ulyana's son Jogaila (and not Algirda's eldest son Andrei von Polotsk ) inherited the throne and became Grand Duke of Lithuania in 1377. In her role as the Dowager Grand Duchess, Ulyana was involved in national politics, the Lithuanian civil war , an unsuccessful attempt to marry Jogaila to Sofia, the daughter of Dmitri Donskoy , and to urge him to convert to Orthodox Christianity . These plans failed when Jogaila converted to Catholicism , married Hedwig of Poland and was crowned King of Poland ( Iure uxoris ) in 1386 .

There are conflicting claims about Ulyana's final years and the location of her grave. A source claims that Ulyana became a nun under the name Marina in the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Vitebsk and is buried there. Another claim, based on a silver plaque found during construction in 1810, is that she is buried in the Cathedral of the Assumption of Our Lady in Vilnius . The Nikon Chronicle says that she was a nun in the Kiev Pechersk Lavra and is buried there. The latest discovery was made during a restoration of the Church of the Transfiguration in Polotsk in March 2012. An inscription was found stating that Ulyana died on the Orthodox holiday of St. Alexius , on March 17th.

Individual evidence

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  3. ^ Rasa Mažeika (1987). "What is Grand Prince Algirdas a Greek Orthodox Christian?" . Lituanus. 33 (4). ISSN 0024-5089 .
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personal data
SURNAME Ulyana of Tver
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ulyana Alexandrovna of Tver (full name); Ульяна Александровна Тверская (full name, Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Daughter of Prince Alexander von Tver and Anastasia von Halytsch, daughter of Juri I of Galicia
DATE OF BIRTH around 1325
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1391