1350–1389. Moscow’s prince who forged resistance to the Mongols; a medieval bold strategist and symbol of Russian unity.
The Russian Orthodox Church is dispatching a fragment of Grand Prince Dmitry Donskoy’s right hand to Donetsk to stand with troops on the frontline. The relic’s journey follows discoveries of Donskoy’s sarcophagus in Moscow and a Kremlin-backed campaign to bolster patriotism amid the Ukraine war.