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  Vasili II of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vasili II Vasiliyevich Tyomniy (Blind) (Василий II Васильевич Тёмный in Russian) (March 10, 1415 – March 27, 1462) was the Grand Prince of Moscow whose long reign (1425-1462) was plagued by the greatest civil war of medieval Russian history.
Vasily II was the eldest son of Vasili I Dmitriyevich by Sofia, the only daughter of Vytautas the Great.
In the meantime, Constantinople fell to the Turks, and the Patriarch agreed to acknowledge the supremacy of the Pope in the Council of Florence.
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 Vasili III of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vasili III Ivanovich (Russian: Василий III Иванович, also Basil) (March 25, 1479 – December 3, 1533) was the Grand Prince of Moscow from 1505 to 1533.
Vasili annexed the last surviving autonomous provinces: Pskov in 1510, appanage of Volokolamsk in 1513, principalities of Ryazan in 1521 and Novgorod-Seversky in 1522.
Vasili also took advantage of the difficult position of Sigismund of Poland to capture Smolensk, the great eastern fortress of Poland (1512), chiefly through the aid of the rebel Lithuanian, Prince Mikhail Hlinski, who provided him with artillery and engineers.
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 ipedia.com: Vasili III of Russia Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Vasili III Ivanovich (Василий III Иванович in Russian) March 25, 1479 - December 3, 1533) was the Grand Prince of Moscow from 1505 to 1533.
Vasili annexed the last surviving autonomous provinces: Pskov in 1510, appanage of Volotsk in 1513, principalities of Ryazan in 1521 and Novgorod-Seversky in 1522.
Vasili's foreign policy was concentrated on the unification of the Russian lands in the West and Southwest and struggle against khanates of Crimea and Kazan.
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 EARLY COINAGE OF MOSCOW
The ancient coins of Russia were struck on behalf of the princes of Kiev, the political and economic capital from the tenth to twelfth centuries.
The decline of Kiev was cemented by the Mongol invasion of the thirteenth century as the city was sacked in 1240.
In 1417 Vasili I's eldest son Ivan died and the Grand Princely title was to pass to the infant Vasili II.
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 Vasily Alexeyev -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Vasili I Dmitriyevich (''Василий I Дмитриевич'' in Russian) (1371 February, 1425), Grand Prince of Moscow since 1389, oldest son of Dmitri Donskoi and Grand Princess Eudoxia (''Yevdokiya'' in Russian) - daughter of the Grand Prince of Suzdal Dmitry Konstantinovich.
Vasili I continued the process of unification of the Russian lands: in 1392, he annexed the principalities of Nizhny Novgorod and Murom; in 1397-1398 - Bezhetsky Verkh, Vologda, Veliki Ustyug and Komi people's lands.
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 A capsule history of Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Nicholas' reign was nothing short of disastrous, as Russia was defeated by Japan in 1904 and the régime collapsed altogether in 1917.
However, with Russia losing the war and the authority of the provisional government challenged by ad hoc urban soviets or councils, it became obvious that it was not in control of events.
Lenin attempted to help Russia compensate for the fact that, according to classic Marxian theory, it was not ripe for socialism because it had not even reached the capitalist stage.
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Tsar (Russian царь, from Latin Caesar, cognate with German Kaiser; also spelt Czar in English borrowed from Hungarian) was the title used for the rulers of Russia from 1546 to 1917 (the Imperial Russia).
It was adopted by Ivan IV as symbolic of a change in the nature of the Russian monarchy.
The Patriarchs, heads of the Russian Orthodox Church, acted as leaders of Russia at times, as during the Polish occupation and interregnum of 1610 - 1613.
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 Encyclopedia: Vasili III of Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Volokolamsk (Волокола́мск in Russian) is an administrative center of the Volokolamsky District of the Moscow Oblast in Russia.
Ryazan (Ряза́нь) is a city in Central Russia federal district, the administrative center of the Ryazan Oblast.
The Rurik Dynasty was the ruling dynasty of Russia from 862 to 1598.
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 Pravda.RU Special diving team from St.Petersburg to work at Kursk submarine
Vasili Velichko was the commander of the group of divers who raised about 1.5 thousand bodies from that sunken vessel.
Vasili Velichko still has the clear picture of that tragedy and other catastrophes – a trawler that blew up in the republic of Georgia, The Suvorov steamer that ran into the bridge… Divers say the hardest thing to get used to is to search for dead bodies and raise them.
Deputy prime minister of Russia Ilia Klebanov has submitted to the President of Russia Vladimir Putin the final report on the investigation by a government commission of the cause of the TU-154M air crash near Irkutsk on July 3, the deputy prime minister's press secretary Andrey Mazurov was quoted as saying.
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 Save The Life, Vasia Latachilin Rescue Page
The patient is Vasili Latachilin from St. Petersburg, Russia.
Vasili is a four year old young man with a congenital heart defect known as Aortic Stenosis.
Vasili absolutely does need a procedure to repair this valve or his condition may progress to a life threatening, irreparable defect.
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 Vasili I of Russia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
With the growth of princely authority in Moscow, feudals' (Click link for more info and facts about judicial) judicial powers were partially diminished and transferred to Vasili's deputies and heads of volosts.
When (Mongolian ruler of Samarkand who led his nomadic hordes to conquer an area from Turkey to Mongolia (1336-1405)) Timur defeated the Golden Horde in 1391 and 1395 and came to Russia, Vasili I refused to pay (Payment by one nation for protection by another) tribute.
After the (The act of invading; the act of an army that invades for conquest or plunder) invasion of Yedigey in 1408, Vasili was finally forced to pay tribute to the Horde.
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 Smolensk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Smolensk (Russian: Смоленск;, Belarusian: Смаленск) is a city in western Russia, located on the Dniepr river at, administrative center of Smolensk Oblast.
It was a severe blow when the city was recaptured by Vasili III of Russia in 1514.
The stone kremlin constructed in 1597–1602 is the largest in Russia.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Smolensk.htm   (827 words)

  
 Through Russia - In a Mountain Defile
Vasili consumed his food deliberately as, breaking off morsels from his slice, and neatly parting his moustache, he placed the morsels in his mouth with a curious stirring of two globules which underlay the skin near the ears.
The ex-soldier, seated near Vasili's shoulder, stirred the fire with a bit of charred stick, and sent sparks of gold flying to join the midges which were gliding to and fro over the blaze.
At the same time, the effect of some of Vasili's dicta on Russia was to arouse in me mingled feelings which impelled me at once to argue with him and to induce him to speak at greater length, with more clarity, on the subject of our mutual fatherland.
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 List of Russian rulers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
At different times, a ruler in Ruthenia/Kievan Rus'/Muscovy/early Russia/Imperial Russia bore the title of Kniaz (translated as Duke or Prince), Velikiy Kniaz (translated as Grand Duke, Grand Prince or Great Prince), Tsar, Emperor.
The Patriarchs, heads of the Russian Orthodox Church, also sometimes acted as the leaders of Russia — as, for example, during the Polish occupation and interregnum of 1610—1613.
See List of leaders of Russia for the continuation of leadership.
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 Allison Leung
This indicates that, when put in his own linguistic environment, Vasili tends to be more dominant, and so Chrissy's apparent dominance may not only have to do with her personality type, but also the fact that the couple lives in the country in which Chrissy is a native speaker of the language.
While I was interviewing Vasili, Chrissy went on with making a smoothie, even drowning him out with the sound of the blender, whereas while I was interviewing Chrissy, Vasili sat by her listening and nervously awaiting his turn.
Vasili is obviously not as confident in language as Chrissy, and this fact manifests itself in their relations to each other.
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 SMOLENSK FACTS AND INFORMATION
Smolensk () is a city in western Russia, located on the Dnieper_river at, administrative center of Smolensk_Oblast.
The hostilities resumed in 1654 when the Commonwealth was being rocked by the Uprising of Ukrainian Cossacks and Swedish invasion.
After another siege, on September_23, 1654 Smolensk was returned to Russia as the Polish garrison left the city.
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 Vasili Mensch Müsste Man Sein Vasilis Tage- Und Nächtebuch V2.0vasilis Sicht Der Dingerevirement.de/webl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
There was a fete in the parish and the innkeeper, Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov, a Second Guild merchant, being a church elder had to go to church, and had also to entertain his relatives and friends at home.
Vasili's reign was one plagued by civil war, but one in which Moscow's power continued to increase.
Vasili was long in a contest with a reactionary coalition of appanage.
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 Amazon.com: Books: You Belong to Me   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Of the two, however, Vasili is the more sympathetic, especially as Alexandra proves time after time, by word and deed, that she is a better man than he.
And so when Vasili finally fetches her and they journey back to Cardinia, what ensues is a pretty hilarious battle of wills as each try their utmost to disgust one another in fervent hope of preventing the wedding.
I felt like Vasili was more enthralled with Alex's "chest" thus finding it hard to believe that he was suddenly in love with her.
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 Russian National Football (Soccer) Team - RussiaTeam.ru : News, History, statistics, Matches, Opponents, Players, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Alexander Kerzhakov's double helped Russia overcome spirited Liechtenstein 2-0 in a FIFA World Cup™ Group 3 qualifier on Saturday to keep alive their hopes of reaching next year's finals.
Russia had an excellent chance to go ahead after three minutes when Roman Pavlyuchenko was brought down by Peter Jehle inside the box after going one-on-one with the Liechtenstein keeper.
"Russia were very strong and it was very difficult for us, especially in the first half," he told reporters.
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 Untitled
Leonid Ivashov, who is in charge of foreign ties at Russia's Defense Ministry and known in Russia as a hawk.
Interfax quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Vasili Sredin as saying Russia was ready to contribute to the success of a high-level U.N. session in New York scheduled for Monday and Tuesday.
Russia has called for sanctions to be relaxed, saying they mainly harmed Iraq's civilian population.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The action against him was taken in connection with a request made to INTERPOL by Russia's prosecutor's general's office.
The request to Interpol was made after Gusinsky who is a citizen of both Russia and Israel refused to show up at the office of the prosecutor general for questioning in Moscow and went abroad.
Russia's deputy prosecutor general Vasili Kolmogorov expressed the hope that the Spanish court will decided the question of handing over Gusinsky already in the nearest future.
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 Johnson's Russia List # 4624 - November 6, 2000
Russia's middle class, one of the main casualties of the 1998 economic
Russia with a continuous distillation process in the 1860s.
Russia, while losing most of them brought by or against him abroad.
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 Vasili Kasatkin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Providing the highest level of expertise in the areas of music, relaxation, and self defense; with the end goal of a more whole
The Gnesini Pedagogical Academy of Music in Moscow, Russia
Vasili is a gifted teacher and performer not only in the areas of piano and saxophone, but also in the areas of self relaxation and defense.
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 NPR : The KGB in the Third World
Vasili Mitrokhin, photographed by a British intelligence officer at his first meeting with the Secret Intelligence Service in the Baltic on April 9, 1992.
All Things Considered, October 6, 2005 · A trove of the Soviet Union's darkest secrets was smuggled out of Russia in 1992.
Vasili Mitrokhin, a former archivist for the KBG, defected to the West, bringing with him tens of thousands of pages documenting the whole history of KGB spying.
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 Volksdeutsche Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Over the last thousand years tens of thousands of Germans emigrated from traditional German lands in Central Europe and settled further east in Russia, present day Romania and other countries.
In the Sixteenth Century Vasili III of RussiaVasili III invited small numbers of German craftsmen, traders and professionals to settle in Russia so that the empire could exploit their skills.
In his youth, Peter the Great spent much time in the German quarter and when he became Tsar he brought more German experts (and other foreigners) into Russia and particularly into government service in his attempts to westernize the empire.
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 RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
Last month, Poland and Russia engaged in a similar "swap" when Poland expelled nine suspected spies from the Russian embassy in Warsaw and Russia responded by demanding the departure of nine Polish diplomats (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 24 January 2000).
All parties agreed that further peace talks within the Six-Plus-Two group (Russia, the U.S., China, Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) are needed to expedite a settlement of the civil war in Afghanistan and should be supplemented by international and private initiatives.
According to the BNF leadership, Lukashenka is preparing to abolish Belarusian sovereignty and that his personnel policy is intended to serve this goal, the agency reported.
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 UK - Spy Cases - Spy Fever - 9/12/99
Vasili Mitrokhin was head archivist of the KGB's First Chief Directorate until he retired in 1985.
He regularly removed key files from storage, copied down their contents on pieces of paper, smuggled them past the security guards, took them to his home, and typed up verbatim transcripts of his handwritten notes.
"When Vasili Mitrokhin first approached MI6 saying he had material that would interest them, they had no idea how important his information would be....
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 Emperor Ogimachi of Japan|Emperor Ogimachi Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The conquests of the French revolutionary armies in the 1790s made the Empire itself untenable, so that Emperor Francis II, Holy Roman EmperorFrancis II in 1804 took the title of Emperor of Austria as Francis I, and ultimately, allowed (perhaps illegally) the dissolution of the Empire two years later.
He based his claim partially upon a letter discovered in 1717 written in 1514 from Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor to Vasili III of RussiaVasili III, Grand Duke of Moscow, in which the Holy Roman Emperor used the term in referring to Vasily.
The title has not been used in Russia since the consecutive abdications of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia#SainthoodSaint Nicholas II of RussiaNicholas II and his brother Grand Duke Michael of RussiaGrand Duke Michael on March 15, 1917.
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