Yuri Andreyevich of Suzdal (c1243-1279)

Yury Andreevich Prince of Suzdal 1264 year -  1279 year Predecessor:	Andrey Yaroslavich Successor:	Mikhail Andreevich

Yuri Andreyevich (c1243-8 March 1279) - Prince of Suzdal (1264-1279). The son of thePrince of Suzdal prince Andrei II Yaroslavich, nephew of Aleksandr Yaroslavich Nevsky.

Almost nothing is known about the activity of Yuri Andrey,evich in Suzdal, almost nothing is known. In 1267 Yuri was imprisoned by another uncle, the Grand Prince Yaroslav Yaroslavich, as governor in Novgorod , where he spent almost his whole life. Yuri Andreevich was one of the leaders of the Russian army in the Battle of Rakovor against the Livonian Germans. The next year, Yuri drove Novgorod to Pskov and drove the besieged city Germans.

After the conflict between the Novgorodians and Yaroslav Yaroslavich, Yuri Andreevich fled to Torzhok, where he began to detain the foodstuffs coming from Vladimir's land in Novgorod. After his death on March 8, 1279, he was buried in the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Suzdal. I did not leave my offspring.