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Vasily Kosoy was the son of Yury Dmitrievich and Anastasia of Smolensk. His grandfather was Dmitry Donskoy who settled the issue of crown inheritance by passing a law according to which his oldest son Vasily I would become Grand Prince after his death and the second in line would be Donskoy's younger son Yury Dmitrievich.
The Muscovite War of Succession, or Muscovite Civil War, was a war of succession in the Grand Duchy of Moscow (Muscovy) from 1425 to 1453. The two warring parties were Vasily II, the son of the previous Grand Prince of Moscow Vasily I, and on the other hand his uncle, Yury Dmitrievich, the Prince of Zvenigorod, and the sons of Yuri Dmitrievich, Vasily Kosoy and Dmitry Shemyaka.
- 1425 – 1453
- Grand Duchy of Moscow (Muscovy)
- Vasily II victory
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Unlike, say, the 15th century Muscovite prince Vasily II, who was indeed sometimes referred to as Vasily Kosoy – the cross-eyed – before he fell into the hands of a rival to the throne and had his eyes put out, after which he was more generally known as Vasily the Blind.
The Ipatiev Monastery is a male monastery situated on the bank of the Kostroma River just opposite the city of Kostroma. It was founded around 1330 by a Tatar convert, Prince Chet, whose male-line descendants include Solomonia Saburova and Boris Godunov. In 1435, Vasily II concluded a peace with his cousin Vasily Kosoy there.
- ulitsa Prosveshcheniya 1, Kostroma, Russia
The Muscovite War of Succession, or Muscovite Civil War, was a war of succession in the Grand Duchy of Moscow from 1425 to 1453. The two warring parties were Vasily II, the son of the previous Grand Prince of Moscow Vasily I, and on the other hand his uncle, Yury Dmitrievich, the Prince of Zvenigorod, and the sons of Yuri Dmitrievich, Vasily Kosoy and Dmitry Shemyaka. In the intermediate stage ...
Vasily Kosoy Explained. Vasiliy Yuryevich Kosoy (the Squint) (Russian: Василий Юрьевич Косой; ca. 1401–1448) was prince of Zvenigorod from 1421. He continued his father's claim on the title of Grand Prince of Moscow in 1434. Life. Vasily Kosoy was the son of Yury Dmitrievich and Anastasia of Smolensk.
The position of Yury became fragile and he soon abandoned Moscow. In 1433, a new treaty was signed between Vasily and Yurн together with Dmitry Krasny. In it, as a separate paragraph, Yury and Dmitry Krasny pledged not to help Kosoy ana Shemyaka. Historian Zimin suggests that the agreement implied a joint struggle against the eldest sons of Yuri.
