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May 10, 2024 · The Principality of Moscow is also known as Muscovy, the Grand Principality of Moscow, [better source needed] Muscovite Rus', or Muscovite Russia. The English names Moscow and Muscovy, for the city, the principality, and the river, descend from post-classical Latin Moscovia, Muscovia (compare Russian Moskoviya, "principality of Moscow"), and ultimately from the Old East Slavic fully vocalized ...
May 9, 2024 · Ivan IV, icon, late 16th century; in the National Museum, Copenhagen. Ivan was the son of Grand Prince Vasily III of Moscow and his second wife, Yelena Glinskaya. He was to become the penultimate representative of the Rurik dynasty. On December 4, 1533, immediately after his father’s death, the three-year-old Ivan was proclaimed grand prince ...
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Alexander married Anastasia, daughter of Sophia of Lithuania and Vasily I of Moscow, and had two sons: Simeon (died 1470) and Mikhailo (died 1481). Simeon married Maria, a daughter of Jonas Goštautas. In the mid-1450s, Goštautas planned to depose Grand Duke Casimir IV Jagiellon and to install his son-in-law Simeon Olelkovich.
Apr 30, 2024 · Treaty of Nerchinsk. Vasily Vasilyevich, Prince Golitsyn (born 1643, Russia—died May 2 [April 21, Old Style], 1714, Kholmogory, Russia) was a Russian statesman who was the chief adviser to Sophia Alekseyevna and dominated Russian foreign policy during her regency (1682–89). Extremely well educated and greatly influenced by western European ...
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May 1, 2024 · Xenia of Tarusa (Russian: Ксения Тарусская) (c. 1246 – 1312), also known as Kseniya Yurievna (Russian: Ксения Юрьевна), (also Ksenia) [1] was a Princess consort of Tver and Grand Princess consort of Vladimir from 1267 to 1271. She is counted among the saints of the Russian Orthodox Church. Xenia of Tarusa was a ...
- Prince of Tver Yaroslav Yaroslavich
4 days ago · Vasily I G.P. of Moscow 1371–1389–1425: Yury of Zvenigorod G.P. of Moscow 1374-1433–1434: Anastasia of Smolensk?–1422: Yuri Kirdyapin: Ivan Shuysky: Zakhary Ivanovich Koshkin: Anna of Moscow 1393–1417: Maria of Borovsk 1418–1484: Vasily II G.P. of Moscow 1415–1425–1433/ 1435–1446/ 1447–1462: Vasily Kosoy G.P. of Moscow 1421 ...
Apr 26, 2024 · The Otroch monastery became one of the largest Tver monasteries, the Tver chronicle was kept in it (the Tver Chronicle of 1305), the "Tale of Mikhail Tversky" and presumably the "Tale of the Tversky Otroch Monastery" were written. In 1531, the Monk Maxim the Greek was exiled to the monastery, who spent 20 years within its walls.
