High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Maria Shvarnovna (?1171 - 19 May 1205-(1206)) was the first wife of Vsevolod III Big Nest, and gave birth to twelve children (hence Vsevolods sobriquet of Big Nest.) Four of her sons, Konstantin,MoreHigh Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Maria Shvarnovna (?1171 - 19 May 1205-(1206)) was the first wife of Vsevolod III Big Nest, and gave birth to twelve children (hence Vsevolods sobriquet of Big Nest.) Four of her sons, Konstantin, George, Yaroslav and Sviatoslav, succeeded their father as Grand Princes of Vladimir, and Yaroslav went on to become Grand Prince of Kiev around the time of the Mongol Invasion.
As Yaroslavs mother, she is thus the paternal grandmother of Alexander Nevskii, whose son, Daniel of Moscow, founded the Muscovite branch of the Rurikid Dynasty.