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Vasily II Vasilyevich [a] (Russian: Василий II Васильевич; 10 March 1415 – 27 March 1462), nicknamed the Blind or the Dark (Тёмный), was Grand Prince of Moscow from 1425 until his death in 1462.
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Vasily of Tver - Wikipedia. Vasily Mikhailovich (Russian: Василий Михайлович; died 24 July 1368) was Prince of Tver from 1349 until his death in 1368. He was the youngest son of Mikhail of Tver. Early life. Vasily was the youngest of the four sons of Mikhail of Tver by his wife Anna of Kashin.
Vasily I Dmitriyevich (Russian: Василий I Дмитриевич; 30 December 1371 – 27 February 1425) was Grand Prince of Vladimir and Moscow from 1389. [ 1 ][ 2 ] He was the heir of Dmitry Donskoy, who reigned from 1359 to 1389.
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Origins
In the 1230s or the 1240s, Yaroslav Vsevolodovich, the grand prince of Vladimir, detached the city of Tver from the Pereyaslavl-Zalessky principality (where it previously belonged), and gave it to his son Alexander Nevsky. In 1246, another son of Yaroslav, Yaroslav Yaroslavich, became the prince of Tver, and the principality was ruled by his descendants until 1485, when it was abolished. In 1264, Yaroslav was appointed the grand prince of Vladimir, which at the time meant he was the supreme a...
Emergence and decline as a great power
In 1285, Mikhail of Tver, a son of Yaroslav of Tver, succeeded his father and became the prince of Tver. In 1305 he became the grand prince of Vladimir as well; however, Özbeg Khan of the Golden Horde decided that Tver became too strong, and supported Moscow against Tver. This led to a military campaign led by Yuri Danilovich of Moscow against Mikhail, supported by Özbeg in 1317. Mikhail met Yuri's army at a small village called Bortenevo, where he was victorious. In the same encounter, Özbeg...
Rivalry with Moscow during the Great Troubles
During the Great Troubles (1359–1381), the Golden Horde descended into a war of succession which weakened it internally and externally, allowing the Grand Duchy of Lithuania under Algirdas (Olgerd) to score a major victory at the Battle of Blue Waters (1362/3). Thereafter, Tver sided with Lithuania against Moscow in the Lithuanian–Muscovite War of 1368–1372. In 1371, Mikhail II of Tver was the last prince of Tver ever appointed as the grand prince of Vladimir. The reign of Mikhail is usually...
The principality stretched from Kashin in the east to Zubtsov in the west. The entirety of the Shosha River, a tributary of the Volga, was included in the south, as well as the Lama River, a tributary of the Shosha, which flowed from Volok Lamsky, a Novgorodian outpost. Throughout its history as an independent principality, there is no information ...
Fennell, John (13 October 2014). The Crisis of Medieval Russia 1200-1304. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-87314-3.Halperin, Charles J. (1987). Russia and the Golden Horde: The Mongol Impact on Medieval Russian History. p. 222. ISBN 9781850430575.(e-book).Martin, Janet (2007). Medieval Russia: 980–1584. Second Edition. E-book. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-511-36800-4.Vasily I 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 rule the Russian lands as the grand.
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In 1451, Boris of Tver concluded a marriage alliance with Vasily II by marrying off his daughter Maria of Tver to Ivan Vasilyevich. With the help of Saint Jonah, Boris promised Vasily to always support their children and Moscow's interests.
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