A Dictionary of Saintly Women/Anna (15)
St. Anna (15), daughter of the Emperor Romanus. Wife of the Russian Prince St. Vladimir II. (Yaroslavitch;, son of St. Anna (14). Mother of the Grand-prince St. Mistislav the Brave, who feared no person or thing, but God only. He defended Novgorod against Andrew of Sousdalia, and was beloved all over Russia. Mistislav, his father St. Vladimir, his mother, and grandmother are buried in the church of St. Sophia at Novgorod, which Vladimir Yaroslavich built on the site of the wooden church of the year 1000: the stone church was built by Greek architects, and is preserved, with its gilt domes, in all its grandeur, unspoilt by wars or storms. St. Misiislav's dead hand, quite black, protrudes from under the cloth which covers his body, and is exposed for the kisses of the faithful. Chester's Russia, and the authorities for the other Russian saints.