Venerable, Right-Believing Grand Princess Euphrosyne (Eudokia) of Moscow, Grand Princess

Venerable Euphrosyne of Moscow, born Eudokia Dmitrievna around 1353, was the daughter of Prince Dimitri Konstantinovich of Suzdal-Nizhny Novgorod. In 1366/1367 she married Prince Dimitri Ivanovich of Moscow, the future Dimitri Donskoi, and remained a faithful companion through the hardships of his reign — the wars against the Golden Horde and Lithuania, including the 1380 Kulikovo campaign. Widowed in 1389, she raised their five sons and led an outwardly princely but increasingly ascetic inner life. In 1395 she took part in the solemn reception in Moscow of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God, whose arrival was linked to the miraculous withdrawal of Tamerlane's forces from the city. She founded the Ascension Convent for women in the Moscow Kremlin, where in 1407 she took monastic vows under the name Euphrosyne, and died shortly afterward. She was renowned for her charitable works and the building and adornment of churches. She was glorified as a saint; her relics rested in the Ascension Convent until its destruction in 1929, and are now kept in the Archangel Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin.