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May 10, 2024 · In the years of Vasily II and Ivan III, the Grand Principality of Moscow acquired the idea of tsardom from the fallen Byzantine Empire, which was incompatible with the recognition of the suzerainty of the khan, and started to declare its independence in diplomatic relations with other countries.
May 23, 2024 · The following is a family tree of the monarchs of Russia . Rurik dynasty. Romanov dynasty. Gallery. Rulers of Russia family trees. Bibliography. Войтович, Леонтій Вікторович (1992). Генеалогія Рюриковичів і Гедиміновичів. Avtor. ISBN 5-7702-0506-7. Коган, Владимир Михайлович (1993). История дома Рюриковичей. Издательский дом "Бельведер".
May 9, 2024 · Ivan the Terrible, grand prince of Moscow (1533–84) and the first to be proclaimed tsar of Russia (from 1547). He oversaw the completion of the construction of a centrally administered Russian state, the creation of an empire that included non-Slav states, and a reign of terror against the hereditary nobility.
- Ivan’s father died when he was three, and his mother died—possibly by poison—before his eighth birthday. Ivan’s formative years would be spent as a...
- Ivan had at least six wives—including five in a period of just nine years—and his marriages frequently ended in the poisoning or imprisonment of hi...
- Ivan used terror to centralize the Russian state, and his disastrous involvement in the Livonian War nearly bankrupted his newly established empire...
- Ivan is interred in the royal crypt at the cathedral of St. Michael the Archangel within the Kremlin in Moscow.
4 days ago · Mechtallion 1TV May 26, 2024 9:20am-9:40am MSK. physical activity is necessary in old age for the joints of the heart and brain, but only a few people do it alone, in a company, with an instructor, and even for free, it’s great, but if a moscow pensioner doesn’t want to play sports, it’s not scary, walking is free for you in moscow with a ...
2 days ago · As the result of the battle, the Seven Boyars, a group of Russian nobles, deposed the tsar Vasily Shuysky on 27 July [O.S. 17 July] 1610, and recognized the Polish prince Władysław IV Vasa as the Tsar of Russia on 6 September [O.S. 27 August] 1610.
May 2, 2024 · The Rzhev Memorial Complex is being erected in memory of the Red Army soldiers on the initiative of World War II veterans at the site of the bloody battles of Rzhev in 1942-1943.
May 16, 2024 · Vasily Iosifovich Gurko (born May 20 [May 8, Old Style], 1864—died Nov. 11, 1937, Rome) was a Russian cavalry officer and the last chief of the General Staff of tsarist Russia (October 1916–February 1917) and Russian commander in chief from March to June 1917.
