Afanasi Danilovich of Novgorod (c1292-1322)

Afanasi Danilovich (c1292-1322) - prince of Novgorod {1314-1315) and (1319-1322) . Son of Prince Daniil Alexandrovich of Npvgorod.

In 1315, Yuri Danilovich, called by Uzbek Khan to the Golden Horde, left his brother Afanasi in Novgorod. At the same time, the news came that Mikhail Yaroslavich of Tver, with all the lower land and the Tatars, was going to Novgorod. Afanasi went to meet and entered the battle. The battle was fierce: Novgorod lost many men and suffered a complete defeat. Afanasi with the remnants of rati shut in Torzhok. The Mikhail began to demand his extradition. Novgorodians answered: "We will not give Athanasi, but we will all be honest for Saint Sophia." Finally we agreed that they would give Mikhail 5,000 hryvnia of silver. But Mikhail, violating the peace agreement, summoned Athanasius and the Novgorod boyars to seize him, seized them and sent them hostage to Tver.

In 1318, after Mikhail's in the Horde, Yuri Danilovich again installed Afanasi in Novgorod. In 1321, Dmitri Mikhailovich of Tver (1299-1326)Dmitri Mikhailovich of Tver recognized the legitimacy of the power of Yuri Danilovich and gave him the Horde tribute from all over the Tver principality. But Yuri Danilovich, instead of taking the Tver tribute to the Horde, took it to Afanasi in Novgorod and put it into circulation through intermediary merchants, wishing to receive interest. The following year, Afanasi became a monk, and then died. He was buried in Novgorod near the Church of the Holy Savior on the Settlement.

Wife - Princess Anna.

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