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Sep 2, 2020 · Vasily II was the Grand Prince of Moscow whose long reign (1425-1462) was plagued by the greatest civil war of Old Russian history. Vasily II was the youngest son of Vasily I of Moscow by Sophia of Lithuania, the only daughter of Vytautas the Great, and the only son to survive his father (his elder brother Ivan died in 1417 at the age of 22).
Apr 17, 2024 · Vasily II was the youngest son of Vasily I of Moscow by Sophia of Lithuania, the only daughter of Vytautas the Great, and the only son to survive his father (his elder brother Ivan died in 1417 at the age of 22). On his father's death Vasily II was proclaimed Grand Duke at the age of 10. His mother acted as a regent.
1425-1462 Grand Prince of Moscow. Vasily II’s reign was overshadowed by the greatest civil war of the era. That also cost him his eyesight. Notably, he declared the independence of the Russian Orthodox Church from Constantinople. His nickname was “ The Blind ”. Lived: 1415-1462. Vasily was 10 when his uncle Yuri and cousins Vasily the ...
Apr 12, 2024 · 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. While still a youth, Vasily, who was the eldest son of Grand Prince Dmitry Donskoy (ruled Moscow 1359–89), travelled to the Tatar khan Tokhtamysh (1383) to obtain the Khan’s patent for his father to ...
Vasili II Vasiliyevich the Blind of Moscow ( Russian: Василий II Васильевич Тёмный) was born 10 March 1415 in Moscow, Russia to Vasili I Dmitriyevich of Moscow (1371-1425) and Sophia of Lithuania (1371-1453) and died 27 March 1462 of unspecified causes. He married Maria Yaroslavna of Borovsk (c1418-1485) 8 February 1433 JL .
Apr 12, 2023 · Vasily II, eldest son of Vasily I, assumed the throne in 1425. However, the former ruler’s brother, Yuri, claiming that he was the oldest eligible male heir, received permission from the Mongols to take Moscow by force. The Mongol leader may have hoped to have a new prince that would be more indebted to him and less likely to rebel.
Russian Orthodox Church. Ivan the Terrible by Viktor Vasnetsov. Ivan IIV Vasilyevich (25 August 1530 – 28 March 1584), more often known in English as Ivan the Terrible, was the first Tsar (Emperor) of Russia. He was the Grand Prince of Moscow before that. He was called Ivan the Terrible because in those days the word terrible meant ...
