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Apr 12, 2024 · In full: Vasily Dmitriyevich. Born: 1371. Died: February 1425, Moscow (aged 54) House / Dynasty: Rurik dynasty. Notable Family Members: father Dmitry II Donskoy. son Vasily II. Vasily I (born 1371—died February 1425, Moscow) was the grand prince of Moscow from 1389 to 1425.
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Moscow gained full sovereignty over a significant part of Rus' by 1480 when the overlordship of the Tatar Golden Horde officially ended after its defeat in the Great Stand on the Ugra River. By the beginning of the 16th century, virtually all those lands were united, including the Novgorod Republic (annexed in 1478) and the Principality of Tver ...
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The Grand Duchy of Moscow ( Russian: Великое княжество Московское, romanized : Velikoye knyazhestvo Moskovskoye ), [3] [4] also known as the Principality of Moscow, [5] [6] or simply Muscovy (from the Latin Moscovia ), [7] [6] was a principality of the Late Middle Ages centered on Moscow. It eventually evolved into the ...
Vasily I Dmitriyevich was the Grand Prince of Moscow, heir of Dmitry Donskoy. He ruled as a Golden Horde vassal between 1389 and 1395, and again in 1412–1425. The raid on the Volgan regions in 1395 by the Turco-Mongol Emir Timur resulted in a state of anarchy for the Golden Horde and the independence of Moscow. In 1412, Vasily reinstated ...
The Muscovite War of Succession, [1] [2] or Muscovite Civil War, [3] was a war of succession in the Grand Duchy of Moscow (Muscovy) from 1425 to 1453. [a] 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 ...
Jul 1, 2021 · The year 1425 was devastating for the Principality of Tver. After the sudden death of Vasily I of Moscow, in the same year plague killed three Grand Dukes of Tver: Ivan Mikhailovich, Boris’ father Aleksander Ivanovich and brother Jury Aleksandrovich. Thus Boris Aleksandrovich became the ruler of the principality.
BASIL (Russ. Vasily ), the name of four grand-dukes of Moscow and tsars of Muscovy. Basil I. Dmitrevich (1371–1425), son of Dmitri (Demetrius) Donskoi, whom he succeeded in 1389, married Sophia, the daughter of Vitovt, grand-duke of Lithuania. In his reign the grand-duchy of Muscovy became practically hereditary, and asserted its supremacy ...
