Holy Prince Dovmont (Domant) Pskov, Prince of Nalshinai (Nalshansky), was originally from Lithuania, at first he zealously professed paganism. In 1265, fleeing from the civil strife of the Lithuanian princes, he was forced to flee Lithuania and came to Pskov with 300 Lithuanian families. Pskov land became his second homeland. Here, in the words of the chronicler, "the grace of God breathed upon him," when, with all his retinue, he received Holy Baptism with the name Timothy and was granted great gifts from the Lord. 
A year later, for his valor and truly Christian virtues, the Pskov people elected him their prince. For 33 years, he ruled the city and was the only prince in the entire history of Pskov who managed to live in peace and harmony with the Pskov evening for so long. He was just and strictly followed the justice of others, generously gave alms, receiving beggars and pilgrims, reverently honored church holidays, patronized temples and monasteries, and himself founded a monastery in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 
Through his marriage to the daughter of Grand Duke Dimitri, the granddaughter of the Holy Prince Alexander Nevsky (November 23 and August 30), he became related to the Russian grand ducal family. Prince Dovmont, like Saint Alexander Nevsky, was a glorious defender of the Russian land. The main merit of the blessed Prince Dovmont as a commander and statesman is that for many years he reliably defended the northwestern border of the Russian state from enemy attacks.
In 1268, Prince Dovmont was one of the heroes of the historic Battle of Rakovor, where the Russian army defeated the Danish and German troops. Before each battle, Saint Dovmont came to the temple, placed his sword at the foot of the holy see and received the blessing of his confessor, who girded his sword on him.
Saint Dovmont made the Pskov fortress impregnable. In memory of the glorious defender of the city, the stone defensive wall erected by the holy Prince near Krom at the end of the 13th century was named Dovmontova, and the territory enclosed by the wall is still called Dovmont city. The holy defender of the "House of the Holy Trinity" had another pious custom: in gratitude to the Lord, in Whose Name he won victories without knowing defeats, the pious Prince Dovmont built temples near the Kremlin in honor of the saint on whose memorial day he won. Other residents of Pskov also built temples there according to special vows. The small territory of the current Dovmont city was completely covered with temples. (The first church in honor of Saint Dovmont-Timothy was built in Dovmont city in 1574.)
The valiant warrior prince won his last victory on March 5, 1299, on the banks of the Velikaya River, where he and his small squad defeated a large German army. Livonian knights unexpectedly attacked the village near Pskov, seized the suburban Snetnogorsky and Mirozhsky monasteries and burned them down, brutally massacring the inhabitants. They killed the founder of the Snetnogorsk monastery, St. Joasaph, with 17 monks, and St. Basil, Abbot of Mirozhsky (commemorated on March 4). The holy Prince Dovmont, without waiting for the large Pskov army to gather, went out to meet the enemy with a squad and drove the blasphemers out of the Russian land.
A few months later, the holy Prince Dovmont-Timothy died and was buried in the Trinity Cathedral in Pskov. The chronicle testifies that "at that time there was great pity in Pleskovo for men, wives, and small children for the good lord, the faithful Prince Timofey." Pskov residents remembered how the holy prince took care of them in peaceful days and especially when the city was in danger, how he led them into battle with the words: "Good men of Pskov! Whoever of you is old is my father, whoever is young is my brother. Let's stand up for the Holy Trinity!"
Soon after the death of the prince, his veneration began as a holy intercessor before God, prayerfully protecting our land from enemies and disasters. The holy Prince defended Pskov more than once after his death. So, in 1480, when more than a hundred thousand Germans besieged the city, he appeared in a dream to one citizen and said: "Take the robe of my tomb, carry it three times around the city with crosses, and do not be afraid." The Pskov residents followed his instructions, and the Germans retreated from the city. After this miraculous deliverance from the enemies, a service was composed for the holy prince. Next to the relics of the blessed prince, his battle sword hung in the Trinity Cathedral (currently the sword is kept in the Pskov Historical, Artistic and Architectural Museum-Reserve), which was presented to the Pskov princes at the enthronement in the church of the Holy Trinity.
The Holy Prince Dovmont-Timothy and his wife, the Venerable Martha in the schema (+ 1300; commemorated on November 8), received the special honor of being depicted on the miraculous Mirozh Icon of the Mother of God (celebrated on September 24): "Deign to paint the most pure image of Your miraculous icon, O Theotokos, in the very likeness of our steadfast intercessor, Prince Domant, with his pious wife" (sedalen of the service to the holy Prince Dovmont-Timothy). At the appearance of the Mother of God to Elder Dorotheus during the siege of Pskov by the Poles on August 27, 1581, the holy Prince Dovmont-Timofey was among the chosen of God accompanying the Heavenly Intercessor of Pskov (information about the Pskov Intercession Icon was posted on October 1).
The relics of the holy Prince Dovmont-Timothy rest in the Pskov Cathedral of the Life-Giving Trinity.