Anna of Kashin

Learning that Mikhail's remains had been brought to Moscow, she sent an embassy there, and her husband's body was transferred into Tver and buried in Preobrazhensky cathedral.In revenge Uzbeg Khan gathered a new army and destroyed Tver; Prince Alexander was forced to hide in Pskov.In 1365 the youngest son of the princess, Vasiliy, her only child remaining alive by that time, entreated his mother to move to his principality.[5] It was during the 1611 siege of Kashin by Lithuanian troops that Anna appeared to Gerasim, Sexton of the Dormition Cathedral, and it is said that she prayed to the Saviour and Our Lady for the deliverance of her city from the foreigners.[4] Twenty-eight years later, Patriarch Joachim addressed the Moscow Synod with a suggestion to decanonize her because of the uncommon veneration and esteem for Anna among the Old Believers.On this day, crowded celebrations were held in Kashin on the occasion of the restoration of the veneration of the saint, which were attended by Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna.On April 18, 2023, at a regular meeting of the Tver City Duma, they considered the proposal of metropolitan Ambrose (Yermakov), to assign the name of the Holy Princess Anna to the square located in front of the new Wedding Palace in Tver and made a positive decision.