This new 
                  monument to Nevsky, dedicated jointly by the Governor of St. 
                  Petersburg Vladimir Yaklovlev, and by Vladimir the Metropolitan 
                  of St. Petersburg and Lagoda, was unveiled during the second 
                  week of May 2002.
                 It is sited 
                  in the center of the traffic island at the Lavra end of Nevsky 
                  Prospekt.  At the front of the monument is a plaque with 
                  an inscription which translates as,
                  "Whoever will come to us with sword, from sword will perish"