Evdokia of Vladimir

Holy Right-⁠believing Evdokia of Vladimir was the daughter of Saint Prince Alexander Nevsky and his first wife, Alexandra Bryachislavna, born after the year 1239, the year of Alexander's marriage. Direct statements that she was the daughter of Alexander Nevsky appear only at the end of the seventeenth century, from which time she is invariably called a princess.

The common tomb of Evdokia and her mother has been preserved in the Dormition Convent in Vladimir, called Knyaginin. She may have been buried there after 1252, when Saint Alexander Nevsky became Grand Prince of Vladimir. The sources of the thirteenth century say nothing of her; the earliest information is from the sixteenth century, the time of the renewal of the convent. In the Book of Degrees it is said that in the side chapel of the Nativity of Christ, on the right side from the south, the grand princess Alexandra and the grand princess Evdokia were laid. In the time of Tsar Ivan IV, one memorial service a year was appointed for the princess Evdokia, on 1 March.

In the seventeenth century the saint's relics were opened and found incorrupt, which evidently began her veneration. A manuscript of the mid-⁠seventeenth century mentions the Grand Princess Evdokia, in the flesh and visible. A description of the tombs says that in a stone wall is set the coffin in which the grand princess Evdokia lies in the flesh; the coffin in which she had lain before had crumbled to dust, and four nuns lifted her and laid her in a new wooden coffin, entire.

A yellow damask cover, with lace embroidered with gold, covered her. The convent inventory of 1665 kept the cover of the right-⁠believing Grand Princess Evdokia, and that of 1686 says that in the chapel of the Nativity of Christ rest under the slab the right-⁠believing grand princess Alexandra and the grand princess Evdokia, daughter of Grand Prince Alexander Yaroslavich. The convent's commemoration book of 1701 enters in the commemoration of the family of Alexander Nevsky the right-⁠believing grand princess Evdokia.

Until the second half of the nineteenth century the place of burial was still marked by a wooden tombstone. In 1891 Abbess Margarita asked Archbishop Feognost of Vladimir for permission to renew the tombs of the grand princesses and of Evdokia, and her tomb was covered with silvered copper sheets, with the inscription: The relics of the right-⁠believing grand princess Alexandra, wife of the holy right-⁠believing prince Alexander Nevsky.

The relics of the right-⁠believing grand princess Evdokia, daughter of the holy right-⁠believing prince Alexander Nevsky. During the repair of the chapel of the Nativity in 1900, a niche was discovered in the wall where, probably, according to the seventeenth-⁠century testimony, the burial of Evdokia had formerly been. During the celebration of the 700th anniversary of the convent, on 14 July 1900 a memorial liturgy was served in the chapel of the Nativity. Today the common tomb of Evdokia and Alexandra is in the Dormition cathedral of the Knyaginin Convent, in the niche, and the relics rest under the slab.

Her canonization is confirmed by the inclusion of her name in the Synaxis of the Saints of Vladimir, commemorated on 23 June.