nikolaevich danilevsky, noted such complexity, ambivalence in... in the chronicle it is said that nevsky from pope enokente iv, where the pontiff assured alexander that yaroslav, his father, while in tatary with the great khan, and allegedly gave his word to the catholic monk karpin to accept the latin faith, would have fulfilled his promise if he had not died suddenly, and that the son is obliged to follow the good example of his father if he wants spiritual salvation and worldly happiness, and... and so on. alexander, according to the chronicle, called upon wise people, consulted with them and wrote to the pope: we know the true teaching of the church, but we are unacceptable and do not want to know yours. and there were several similar attempts, but this does not mean at all how often we imagine that alexander nevsky had hostile relations with the vatican. he was a great politician, a great diplomat. and judging by the correspondence, these are absolutely correct relations, let me remind you, many of course don’t know this, that in fact alexander nevsky is a saint for the catholic chu