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Down: On the Volga river in Tver, St Catherine Church on the left. / 56.86250°N 35.92417°E / 56.86250; 35.92417. Tver ( Russian: Тверь, IPA: [tvʲerʲ]) is a city and the administrative centre of Tver Oblast, Russia. It is situated at the confluence of the Volga and Tvertsa rivers.
Church of Mikhail Tverskoi, Tver: See 22 reviews, articles, and 48 photos of Church of Mikhail Tverskoi, ranked No.29 on Tripadvisor among 180 attractions in Tver.
Saint Mikhail Yaroslavich Rurik of Tver, Prince of Tver, Grand Prince of Vladimir, was born 1271 to Yaroslav Yaroslavich of Tver (1230-1272) and Kseniya Yuryevna of Tarusa (c1246-1312) and died 22 November 1318 of execution. He married Anna Dmitriyevna of Kashin (c1280-1368) 1294 JL . Mikhail Yaroslavich (Russian: Михаил Ярославич) (1271 – 22 November 1318) was a Prince of ...
Mikhail Yaroslavich (Russian: Михаил Ярославич) (1271 – 22 November 1318), also known as Michael of Tver, was a Prince of Tver (from 1285) who ruled as Grand Prince of Vladimir from 1304 until 1314 and again from 1315–1318. He was canonized and counted among the saints of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Like his father, Mikhail remained based in Tver. In 1308 Mikhail led a campaign against Moscow itself but could not breach the kremlin walls. In 1317 Yuri Danilovich of Moscow led an army along with the Tatar temnik Kavgadi against Tver. Mikhail met the army at the Battle of Bortenevo in December 1317 and was victorious. Konchaka, the sister of ...
The Polish–Lithuanian troops under Tver made up 12 regiments, and their main force was 5,000 horsemen of Aleksander Zborowski. Course of the battle. On July 17–18, the Russian army left Torzhok, and on July 21 approached Tver and camped 10 miles from it. The interventionist army took up fortified positions. Therefore, Skopin-Shuisky began ...
Dmitry Mikhailovich ( Russian: Дмитрий Михайлович; 1298 – 15 September 1326), nicknamed the Fearsome Eyes or the Terrible Eyes ( Грозные Очи ), [1] was Prince of Tver from 1318 and Grand Prince of Vladimir from 1322 until his death in 1326, when he was executed in Sarai by the Mongols. [2] He was a son of Mikhail of ...
