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2 days ago · The struggle began at the death of Vasily I, a son of Dmitry Donskoy, in 1425. The succession of his 10-year-old son Vasily II was challenged by his uncle Yury, prince of the important upper Volga commercial town of Galich.
Jun 23, 2024 · Vasily I 1371–1425 Grand Prince of Moscow r. 1389–1425: Yury of Zvenigorod 1374–1434 Grand Prince of Moscow r. 1433–1434: Anastasia of Smolensk d. 1422: Yuri Kirdyapin: Ivan Shuysky: Zakhary Ivanovich Koshkin: Anna of Moscow 1393–1417: Maria of Borovsk 1418–1484: Vasily II 1415–1462 Grand Prince of Moscow r. 1425–1433, r. 1435 ...
4 days ago · Vasily III. Vasily III, detail from an engraving. Ivan’s son Vasily, who came to the throne in 1505, greatly strengthened the monarchy. He completed the annexation of Russian territories with the absorption of Pskov (1510) and Ryazan (1521) and began the advance into non-Russian territories (Smolensk, 1514).
Jun 20, 2024 · Ivan was the son of Grand Prince Vasily III of Moscow and his second wife, Yelena Glinskaya. He was to become the penultimate representative of the Rurik dynasty. On December 4, 1533, immediately after his father’s death, the three-year-old Ivan was proclaimed grand prince of Moscow.
- Ivan’s father died when he was three, and his mother died—possibly by poison—before his eighth birthday. Ivan’s formative years would be spent as a...
- Ivan had at least six wives—including five in a period of just nine years—and his marriages frequently ended in the poisoning or imprisonment of hi...
- Ivan used terror to centralize the Russian state, and his disastrous involvement in the Livonian War nearly bankrupted his newly established empire...
- Ivan is interred in the royal crypt at the cathedral of St. Michael the Archangel within the Kremlin in Moscow.
4 days ago · Konstantin's grandson Andrei Kharitonovich was nicknamed Tolstiy (translated as fat) by Vasily II of Moscow after he moved from Chernigov to Moscow.
3 days ago · Ivan IV Vasilyevich ( Russian: Иван IV Васильевич; [d] 25 August 1530 – 28 March [ O.S. 18 March] 1584), commonly known as Ivan the Terrible, [note 1] was Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1533 to 1547, and the first Tsar and Grand Prince of all Russia from 1547 until his death in 1584. [4]
Jun 27, 2024 · The first Russian Exchange was registered in May of 1990 and was called Moscow Commodity Exchange. November 21, 1990, Moscow Central Stock Exchange was the second on the list. The first valuable securities trading session in the USSR was held only several months later.
