On 23 November 1263, in the cathedral of the Mother of God Nativity Monastery, in the south-west corner under the choirs, Grand Prince Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky was laid to rest. In 1723, Archimandrite Sergius was given the great honour of receiving the highest decree from Emperor Peter the Great to transfer the relics of Alexander Nevsky to St. Petersburg.

In the Laurentian Chronicle, which most scholars believe is a copy of the Vladimir Chronicle from 1305, on the first leaf there is a record from the 16th to the early 17th century: ‘Book of the Mother of God Nativity Monastery of Vladimir’. According to A.N. Nasonov, it was in the Mother of God Nativity Monastery that the monk Lavrenty compiled his chronicle, and the Trinity Chronicle was written here.

Now, the monastery houses a museum dedicated to Alexander Nevsky.