Ivan II Ivanovich the Fair (Russian: Иван II Иванович Красный, romanized: Ivan II Ivanovich Krasnyy; 30 March 1326 – 13 November 1359) was Prince of Moscow and Grand Prince of Vladimir from 1353 to 1359. Until that date, he had ruled the towns of Ruza and Zvenigorod. He was the second son of Ivan Kalita, and succeeded his brother Simeon the Proud, who died of the Black Death.
IvanII Ivanovich the Fair (Russian: Иван II Иванович Красный, romanized: IvanII Ivanovich Krasnyy; 30 March 1326 – 13 November 1359) was Prince of Moscow...
Ivan III Vasilyevich (Russian: Иван III Васильевич; 22 January 1440 – 27 October 1505), also known as Ivan the Great, was Grand Prince ofMoscow and all...
his son Ivan III his co-ruler in his late years. Vasily II was the youngest son of Vasily I ofMoscow by Sophia of Lithuania, the only daughter of Vytautas...
Ivan I Danilovich Kalita (Russian: Иван I Данилович Калита; 1 November 1288 – 31 March 1340 or 1341) was Prince ofMoscow from 1325 to at least 1340,...
at the age of 16, Ivan was crowned at the Cathedral of the Dormition in the Moscow Kremlin. The metropolitan placed on Ivan the signs of royal dignity:...
Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581 is a painting by Russian realist artist Ilya Repin made between 1883 and 1885. It depicts the grief-stricken...
princes ofMoscow: Ivan I ofMoscow (1288–1340 or 1341) IvanIIofMoscow (1326–1359) Ivan III ofMoscow (1440–1505) Ivan IV ofMoscow (also known as Ivan the...
Yury ofMoscow to counterbalance the strength of Tver; and after the Tver Uprising of 1327, which the Muscovites helped put down, Özbeg Khan named Ivan "Kalita"...
Prince ofMoscow from 1359 and Grand Prince of Vladimir from 1363 until his death. He was the heir ofIvanII. He was the first prince ofMoscow to openly...
internal structure of northern Russian lands. In the years of Vasily II and Ivan III, the Grand Principality ofMoscow acquired the idea of tsardom from the...
princess consort ofMoscow as the second wife ofIvanIIofMoscow from 1345. She was the daughter of Vasily Velyaminov, a tysyatsky ofMoscow who held great...
(1661–1682) Ivan I ofMoscow (Ivan Kalita, 1288–1340/41) IvanIIofMoscow ("the Fair", 1326–1359) Ivan III ("the Great", 1440–1505) Ivan IV ("the Terrible"...
3 December 1533) was Grand Prince ofMoscow and all Russia from 1505 until his death in 1533. He was the son ofIvan III and Sophia Paleologue and was...
Policies ofIvan III ofMoscow.” Speculum 8 (1933): 437-38; John I. L. Fennell, Ivan the Great ofMoscow (London: Macmillan, 1961), 325. Fennell, Ivan the...
Anna Vasilyevna ofMoscow (Russian: Анна Васильевна; 1393 – August 1417) was a Byzantine empress consort by marriage to John VIII Palaiologos. She died...
Duke of Moscow (1325–1340) IvanII, "The Fair", Grand Duke ofMoscow (1353–1359) Ivan III, "The Great", Grand Prince ofMoscow (1462–1505) Ivan IV, "The...
Гордый, romanized: Gordy), was Prince ofMoscow and Grand Prince of Vladimir from 1340 to 1353. The son ofIvan I, Simeon continued his father's policies...
of France (French: Charles le Bel) Donald III of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Domnall Bán) Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou (French: Geoffroy le Bel) IvanII...
governor-general ofMoscow, 1726-1738 Alexandra Velyaminova (died 1364), Grand Princess consort of Muscovy (married to IvanIIofMoscow) Boris Vorontsov-Velyaminov...
and the bishop of Sarai deliberated on the issue. Ivan Dmitrevich won the argument with the support of Mikhail of Tver and Daniil ofMoscow, against Andrey...
dynasty and the grand princess ofMoscow as the second wife ofIvan III of Russia. Her father was Thomas Palaiologos, the despot of the Morea. Through her eldest...
The city ofMoscow gradually grew around the Moscow Kremlin, beginning in the 14th century. It was the capital of the Grand Duchy ofMoscow (or Muscovy)...
Russia from April to June 1605, at the beginning of the Time of Troubles. Fyodor II was born in Moscow, the son and successor to Boris Godunov. His mother...
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