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The Principality of Ryazan (Russian: Рязанское княжество), later known as the Grand Principality of Ryazan (Russian: Великое княжество Рязанское), was a principality from 1129 to 1521. [1] Its capital was the city of Ryazan, now known as Old Ryazan, which was destroyed in 1237 during the Mongol ...
Grand Prince Ivan V of Ryazan (Ivan Ivanovich, Russian: Иван Иванович Рязанский) (1496 – 1533 or 1534) was the last nominally independent ruler of Ryazan Principality. Ivan V of Ryazan was the only son of Prince Ivan Vasilievich and his wife, Agrippina (Agrafena) Vasilyevna, Princess Babich-Drutskaya.
Fyodor Olgovich was born in around 1360, the son of Oleg Ivanovich, the grand prince of Ryazan by his first wife, possibly named Vassa Anastasia Maria Ulyanaz. He was brought up within the court of his father during a period of transition as the principality moved from Slavic paganism to the Russian Orthodox Church.
The Mongols defeated the vanguard of the Ryazan army at the Voronezh River [2] and on December 16, [3] 1237 besieged the capital of the principality (this site is now known as Old Ryazan, Staraya Ryazan, and is situated some 50 km from the modern city of Ryazan). [1] The townspeople repelled the first Mongol attacks.
As a result of the takeover, the seat of the principality was moved about 55 km (34 mi) to the town of Pereslavl-Ryazansky, which subsequently took the name of the destroyed capital. The site of the old capital now carries the name of Staraya Ryazan (Old Ryazan), close to Spassk-Ryazansky. Maps of the 16th-18th centuries show Ryazan (Old Ryazan ...
As a border principality, Ryazan became one of the first Rus' polities conquered by Batu Khan (a military leader of the Mongol forces) who led a united army of various nomadic steppe peoples. Russian texts referred to the invaders as " tatars " (татаре [ citation needed ] - standard modern Russian: татары).
Ivan Vasilyevich came to the throne of the Grand Duchy of Ryazan on the death of his father, Grand Prince Vasily Ivanovich, on January 7, 1483. [2] As the elder son, he received Pereyaslavl of Ryazan (modern city of Ryazan), Rostislavl and Pronsk as his personal domains, while his younger brother, Prince Fyodor Vasilyevich (d. 1503), was given Perevitsk [], Old Ryazan [] and a third of ...
Ivan III or Ivan Fyodorovich (Russian: Ива́н Фёдорович) was the Grand Prince of Ryazan (1427–1456) and younger son of Grand Prince Fyodor II of Ryazan.During his reign, he retained good diplomatic relationships with both the Grand Duchies of Lithuania and Moscow.