Template:Wp-Andrei I Bogolyubsky

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Andrew I (ca. 1111 – 28 June 1174), his Russian name in full, Andrey Yuryevich Bogolyubsky (lit. Andrey Yuryevich of Bogolyubovo), also referred to as Andrei I Yuryevich and Andrei the Pious, was Grand prince of Vladimir-Suzdal from 1157 until his death. Andrey accompanied Yuri I Vladimirovich (Yury Dolgoruky), his father, on a conquest of Kiev, then led the devastation of the same city in 1169,^[1][2] and oversaw the elevation of Vladimir as the new capital of northeastern Rus'^[1] (and so the decline of Kievan rule). Andrey has been referred to in the West as the "Scythian Caesar", He was canonized as a saint in the Russian Orthodox Church in 1702.