Andrey Bogolyubsky, Russian saint (b. 1111)

Andrew I (ca. 1111 – 28 June 1174), his Russian name in full, Andrey Yuryevich Bogolyubsky (Russian: Андрей Ю́рьевич Боголюбский, 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 devastaion of the same city in 1169, and oversaw the elevation of Vladimir as the new capital of northeastern Rus' (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.