Pskov Region Governor Mikhail Vedernikov, Metropolitan Tikhon of Pskov and Porkhov, Russia's President Vladimir Putin, his aide Vladimir Medinsky, and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia attend a ceremony to open the Prince Alexander Nevsky and His Guard memorial site on the shore of Lake Peipsi (Chudskoye), at the supposed location of the 1242 Battle on the Ice, to mark Nevsky's 800th birthday, in the Pskov region, Russia.