Maria Shvarnovna

As Yaroslav's mother, she is thus the paternal grandmother of Alexander Nevsky, whose son, Daniel of Moscow, founded the Daniilovichi, the Muscovite branch of the Yurievichi.

The Novgorod First Chronicle mentions her death under the year 1205, but does not give an exact day.

There is a hypothesis that her father is a certain voivode Shvarn [ru], possibly of Czech origin.

According to several accounts, the convent was founded in 1200 and Maria took the schema [ru] and the name Marfa (although this would have required her to have ended her marriage with Vsevolod, who outlived her by six years).

She and her sister, Anna, were buried in the convent and her relics, along with those of several other saints, including Alexander Nevsky's first wife, Princess Alexandra, and his daughter are still kept there.