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The grand principality of Vladimir-Suzdal fell apart into feuding appanages over the course of the 13th century. The princes of Moscow were descendants of Daniel. [4] As Daniel never became grand prince of Vladimir before he died in 1303, [5] this meant that according to traditional succession practices, his descendants were izgoi: his son and successor Yury of Moscow had no legitimate claim ...
The English names Moscow and Muscovy, for the city, the principality, and the river, are derived from post-classical Latin Moscovia, Muscovia, and ultimately from the Old Russian fully vocalized accusative form Московь, Moskov'. [27] [28] Moscow is first mentioned under the year 1147 in the locative case (na Moskvě). [27]
The grand princes of Moscow, once they entrenched their status as the supreme prince with regard to other Russian princes, typically left a will in which they appointed their eldest son as heirs to the title of grand prince; [85] this did not fully conform to traditional succession practices, and in 1497, Ivan III went one step further by ...
In 1462 Ivan III, known as Ivan the Great (1440–1505) became Grand Prince of Moscow (then part of the medieval Muscovy state). He began fighting the Tatars, enlarged the territory of Muscovy, and enriched his capital city. By 1500 it had a population of 100,000 and was one of the largest cities in the world.
Muscovy receives the cities of Kozelsk, Lyubutsk and Peremyshl; 1425–1453 [12] Muscovite War of Succession [13] Younger Donskoy line Vasily II Vasilyevich Dmitry II Shemyaka (1434–9) Boris of Tver (c. 1438) Mäxmüd of Kazan (1445–8) Qasim Khan (1452–3) Older Donskoy line Yury Dmitrievich (1425–34) Vasily Kosoy (1434–6) Ulugh of ...
The Muscovites began developing an identity of the grand prince as the sovereign and the ruler of all the Russian lands, and Vasily positioned himself as the defender of Orthodoxy. [ 7 ] In his later years, the blind prince was greatly helped by Metropolitan Jonah, boyars, and then by his older son Ivan III who was styled as co-ruler since the ...
Ivan Danilovich was the fourth son of Daniel of Moscow, the first prince of Moscow and founder of the Moscow branch of Rurikids. [1] Daniel was the youngest of the four sons of Alexander Nevsky, who had reigned as the grand prince of Vladimir. [2]
The Qasim Khanate (also known as Qasimov, Kasimov [1] [2] or Kasim) was a Tatar-ruled khanate, a vassal of the Principality of Moscow (later Tsardom of Russia), which existed from 1452 until 1681 in the territory of modern Ryazan Oblast in Russia with its capital at Kasimov, in the middle course of the Oka River.