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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.
Vasily Yuryevich was known after that as Vasily Kosoy. He lived until 1448, but chronicles do not mention him between 1436 and 1448; apparently he was imprisoned all this time. At the same time Vasily II released Dmitry Shemyaka, who had been exiled to Kolomna, and concluded a treaty with him similar to the treaty he previously concluded with ...
- 1425 – 1453
- Grand Duchy of Moscow (Muscovy)
- Vasily II victory
The three princes marched on Vasily Kosoy in Moscow who fled with the treasury to Novgorod, then Kostroma where he organised an army to march on Moscow. He was eventually defeated outside Yaroslavl but managed to flee to Vologa where he raised another army and marched on Rostov.
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In the intermediate stage, the party of Yury conquered Moscow, but in the end, Vasily II regained his crown. The Muscovite War of Succession, or Muscovite Civil War, was a war of succession in the Grand Duchy of Moscow from 1425 to 1453.
By his wife, Anastasia, the daughter of Yury of Smolensk, Yury had three sons — Vasily Kosoy, Dmitry Shemyaka, and Dmitry Krasny. The marriage to Anastasia made him the brother-in-law of Švitrigaila, Grand Duke of Lithuania . The Nativity Cathedral built by Yury in Zvenigorod ca. 1405.
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.
Vasiliy Yuryevich Kosoy (the Squint) (Russian: Василий Юрьевич Косой) (1421–1448) had been Grand Prince of Moscow in 1434–35. Life Vasily Kosoy was the son of Yury Dmitrievich and Anastasia of Smolensk.
