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  Vasili III of Russia
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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 Vasili Iii
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 annex ed the last surviving autonomous provinces: Pskov in 1510, appanage of Volokolamsk in 1513, principalities of Ryazan in 1521 and Novgorod-Seversky in 1522.
During the reign of Vasili III, the gentry 's landownership increased; authorities were actively trying to limit immunities and privilege s of boyars and nobility.
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 EARLY COINAGE OF MOSCOW
In 1417 Vasili I's eldest son Ivan died and the Grand Princely title was to pass to the infant Vasili II.
The rule of Vasili II was interrupted again in 1445, when he was captured by the Mongols in the Battle of Suzdal.
Vasili was banished from Moscow but local unrest fueled a movement to restore him to the throne.
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 Andrei Podushkin jälkeläiset
Vasili Feodorinpoika Podushkin was born on 13 Apr 1868 in Palkeala.
Anna married Vasili Nikolainpoika Komonen, son of Nikolai Dimitrinpoika Komonen and Marfa Nikolaintytär, on 23 Oct 1888 in Palkeala.
Vasili was born on 26 Mar 1866 in Rautu\Palkeala.
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 Vasili III of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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.
The diplomat and statesman, Ivan Bersen-Beklemishev, was executed in 1525 for criticizing Vasili's policies.
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 Britain.tv Wikipedia - Muscovy
Indeed, after Ivan III's marriage to Sophia Paleologue, the niece of the last Byzantine emperor, the Muscovite court adopted Byzantine terms, rituals, titles, and emblems such as the double-headed eagle.
Russian boyars signed in 1610 a treaty of peace, recognising Ladislaus IV of Poland, son of Polish king Sigismund III Vasa, as tzar (which was opposed by his father, however who wanted the throne for himself).
Polish king Wladyslaw IV, whose father and predecessor Sigismund III Vasa had been elected by Russian boyars as tsar of Russia during the Time of Troubles, renounced all claims to the title as a condition of the peace treaty.
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 ooBdoo
On 25 December 800, Charles I, King of the Franks, was crowned Emperor by Pope Leo III in Rome.
This was seen both as a reaction to the supposed vacancy of the Eastern Empire, due to the presence of a woman, Irene on the throne in Constantinople, and as a revival of the Western Roman Empire, and descendants of Charlemagne continued to be crowned in Rome through the 9th century.
In 1936, the Italian king Victor Emmanuel III took the title of Emperor of Ethiopia when that country was under Italian occupation and made part of a colonial entity.
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 Presidency
Rejoice, Orthodox Grand Prince Vasili Vasilievich, beautified by the crown of the Orthodox Greek faith, and with you rejoice all the Orthodox princes of the Russian land....
In 1472, Ivan III, the son of the Orthodox champion Vasili the Blind, arranged to marry Sophia (or Zoe) Paleologue, the niece of the last Emperor of Byzantium.
Vasili III's interpretation of the Third Rome included the Byzantine proprietary theory of law, which specified that the state, the land and the people were all the property of the tsar.
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 Ivan III of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was in the reign of Ivan III that Muscovy rejected the Tatar yoke.
But the clever Greek lady prevailed in the end, and it was her son Vasily, not Maria of Tver's son, Ivan, who was ultimately crowned co-regent with his father (April 14, 1502).
It was in the reign of Ivan III that the new Russian Sudebnik, or law code, was compiled by the scribe Vladimir Gusev.
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 Ivan III of Russia
Ivan III Vasilevich (January 22, 1440 - October 27, 1505) also known as Ivan the Great ruled from 1462 - 1505.
Ivan has been referred to as the "gather of the Russian lands" and united most of the areas of Russia under his control.
Sophia introduced the customs of the Byzantine court, and the idea of Moscow as a “third Rome” (Rome and the Byzantine Empire being the 1st and 2nd) became popular.
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 Ivan Bersen-Beklemishev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The latter was seeking the hand of Ivan III’s daughter and an alliance against the Polish king.
During the reign of Vasili III, Beklemishev began to fall into disgrace as a man known for his stern dispositon and oppositionary opinions (e.g., he believed that the right to discuss the affairs of the state was the most essential prerogative of the boyardom).
A major confrontation between Beklemishev and Vasili III took place after he had dared to criticize him on a number of issues, such as his intention to divorce Solomonia Saburova, and his unwillingness to consult with the Duma (as opposed to Ivan III) over the affairs of the state.
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 Historia de Rusia
Vasili III se casó con Elena Glinskaya que tuvo un hijo llamado Iván Vasilievich (Iván el terrible).
Vasili III se casó con Solomoniya Saburova pero ésta era estéril y él deseaba tener descendencia porque no veía bien que sus hermanos controlasen Moscovia y así, contra la opinión de la iglesia se casó con otra mujer, por consejo de los boyardos.
Vasili fue enterrado junto a su padre entre gran dolor del pueblo.
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 Britain.tv Wikipedia - New Rome
Within decades after the Fall of Constantinople to Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire on May 29, 1453, some were nominating Moscow as the "Third Rome", or new "New Rome".
Sophia was a niece of Constantine XI, the last Eastern Roman Emperor and Ivan could claim to be the heir of the fallen Eastern Roman Empire.
The idea crystallized with a panegyric letter composed by the Russian monk Philoteus (Filofey) in 1510 to their son Grand Duke Vasili III, which proclaimed, "Two Romes have fallen.
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 Medieval Russia
The son of Vasili II, Ivan III, was a cautious man who "always took two bites at a cherry," preferred to let his troops go into battle without him (uncommon in the age of chivalry), and was afraid of the dark.
The next tsar, Vasili III (1505-33), was too colorless to be mentioned in most history books, but he completed the work of reunification that his father had started, annexing Pskov (1510) and Ryazan (1521), and taking Smolensk from Lithuania (1514).
The first three Romanov tsars, Michael (1613-45), Alexis (1645-76), and Fyodor III (1676-82), were not strong rulers, and their achievements can be described with just a few words; most of Russia's accomplishments in the seventeenth century were made by ordinary people, with little direction from the Kremlin.
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 ipedia.com: Muscovy Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Various semi-independent princes still claimed specific territories, but Ivan III forced the lesser princes to acknowledge the grand prince of Muscovy and his descendants as unquestioned rulers with control over military, judicial, and foreign affairs.
By assuming that title, the Muscovite prince underscored that he was a major ruler or emperor on a par with the emperor of the Byzantine Empire or the Mongol khan.
Polish king Wladyslaw IV, whose father and predecessor Sigismund III had been elected by Russian boyars as tsar of Russia during the Time of Troubles, renounced all claims to the title as a condition of the peace treaty.
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 Master and Man, by Leo Tolstoy (chapter3)
Vasili Andreevich screwed up his eyes, bent down his head, and looked out for the way-marks, but trusted mainly to the horse’s sagacity, letting it take its own way.
Vasili Andreevich gave him the reins, the more willingly because his hands were beginning to feel frozen in his thick gloves.
Vasili Andreevich went into the room with the old man, and Nikita drove through the gate opened for him by Petrushka, by whose advice he backed the horse under the penthouse.
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 CMH5
Ivan III (1462-1505), Great Prince of Moscow, deserves his title of Great, if the appellation be interpreted in the sense that his reign marks a new epoch.
The reign of Vasili III (1505-33) is an appendix to that of his father, continuing his work, increasing Muscovite territory and maintaining some relations with European Courts.
Vasili married Helen Glinskaia, a Lithuanian refugee, who after his death maintained her position, as regent for her infant son Ivan, amidst great difficulties, for five years.
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 Democracy and Autocracy in Russian History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Under Vasili III Pskov and Riazon, long independent holdout, were also added to the growing territory of Moscow.
Although Vasili still experienced constant strife with his unwilling brotherly subordinates, after him the absolute claims of the oldest son were hardly ever in question.
Vasili had two sons by his second wife, Helen Glinsky, a princess of Russo-Lithuania, Ivan and George.
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 Russia history architecture Kolomenskoe Moscow
It was built in 1532 by the Moscow Grand Prince Vasili III in order to give thanks at the birth of his son and heir to the throne, Ivan, who later became Ivan IV, or the terrible.
After Vasili III's death, Ivan IV carried on the tradition of building at Kolomenskoe, which also served as one of his residences.
I have never seen any references as to whether it was built by Vasili III or Ivan IV, but Vasili died in 1533.
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 Ivan III’s Conquest of Novgorod in 1471   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Posadnik; and she was also to lose her life by decapitation: together with  these Vasili Seleznev Guba, Kiprian Arzubiev, and Iremia were also beheaded for their conspiracy and crime in seeking to take to Latinism.
Voevoda Vasili Fedorovich and his comrades, that a large number of the men of Novgorod were slain and others captured; so were the men of Novgorod overcome with fatigue and staggered in battle that they could not move their hands or turn their heads; that their Prince
Vasili Shuiski and the Novgorod men, while a large multitude had been drowned in the lake, then tears were added to tears, and wailings to wailings, realizing that the whole of the Novgorod country was by the wrath of the Grand Prince
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He was the son of the Grand Duke Vasili III.
Vasili had married her after he tried to have an heir for 20 years with his first wife Salome.
Vasili was in his 50’s, and Helena was 20 when Ivan was born.
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 Excerpts from GURPS Russia
But Vasili's role in history was overshadowed by the reign of his son, the madman Ivan IV.
Before Ivan III, the only obligations of the landowners were their taxes; each boyar was essentially the king of his own small domain.
The years that immediately followed saw Tsar Vasili deposed, the death of the escaped Felon (who later was killed in a quarrel over personal financial accounts), and several foreign claims to the throne, including one from Poland and two from Sweden.
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 Orsha 1514
Spurred on by this initial success, the Grand Prince of Muscovy Vasili III ordered his forces farther into Belarus, occupying the towns of Krychau, Mscislau and Dubrouna.
The forces of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Kingdom of Poland seized the Muscovite camp and all 300 cannon.
Upset at word of the massive defeat, Muscovite Grand Prince Vasili III allegedly remarked that "the prisoners [were] as useful as the dead" and declined to negotiate their return.
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 Gallery- Muscovy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Vasili III was born on March 25 1479 and died on December 3 1533, at the age of 54.
He divorced her in 1526 for being barren, despite strong opposition (and that she was possibly pregnant at the time with his child).
Vasili III then married Helena Glinskaya (1506-1538), a Lithuanian noblewoman (niece of Michael Glinski).
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 Vasili III of Russia: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
Vasili III of Russia: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
Vasili ended the suriving autnomous institutions of his new provinces and was also a great builder constructing a number of churches throuhgout Russia.
Post a link to definition / meaning of " Vasili III of Russia " on your site.
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 Paradox Interactive Forums - A People, a Land & an Empire: A History of Russia
It was clear to the nobles and the Grand Duke Ivan III that if Russia was to survive and thrive as a nation, it would need to expand at the expense of its neighbors.
Under Vasili III, who had taken on the title of Tsar (though not yet called Tsar of All the Russians) in 1505, the kingdom slowly attempted to correct the problems that a quarter of a century of neglect had wrought on infrastructure, trade and military technology.
When Vasili III rose to power, he promoted the then young soldier to the rank of General, and sent him to lead his armies against Sibir and the Uzbeks.
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 Ivan IV of Russia
Known in the Russian language as Ivan Grozny(Thunderous), known in English as Ivan the Terrible.
This tsar retains his place in the Russian folk tradition simply as Ivan Vasilyevich (Vasily's son).
Ivan came to the throne at age three and was crowned Tsar at age sixteen on January 16, 1547.
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