^The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge2. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 1843: 6561843 [2017-02-23]. ANDREW ALEXANDROVICH, a Russian prince, distinguished for meanness and servility in an age of meanness, was the second son of Alexander Nevsky [...]. [He showed] some energy against the Swedes, whom he defeated in 1301 on the banks of the Neva, and drove from Landskrona, a fortress which they had erected within a few miles of the site of the present St. Petersburg.