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		Vasili III Ivanovich (Russian: Ð’Ð°ÑÐ¸Ð»Ð¸Ð¹ III ÐÐ²Ð°Ð½Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ, also Basil) (March 25, 1479 â“ December 3, 1533, Moscow) 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 Lithuania (1512), chiefly through the aid of the rebel Lithuanian, Prince Mikhail Hlinski, who provided him with artillery and engineers.
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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Vasili III of Russia
		Vasili III Ivanovich (Russian: Василий III Иванович, also Basil) (March 251479 – December 31533) 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 Lithuania (1512), chiefly through the aid of the rebel Lithuanian, Prince Mikhail Hlinski, who provided him with artillery and engineers.
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	Informat.io on Vasili Shusky
		Vasili IV of Russia (Russian: Василий IV Иванович Шуйский) (1552 – September 12, 1612) was the last Rurikid tsar of Russia between 1606 and 1610.
		Born Knyaz (Prince) Vasily Vasilievich Shuisky and descended from sovereign princes of Nizhny Novgorod, he was one of the leading boyars of Muscovy during the reigns of Feodor I and Boris Godunov.
		It was he who, in obedience to the secret orders of Tsar Boris, went to Uglich to inquire into the cause of the death of Dmitry Ivanovich, the infant son of Ivan the Terrible, who had perished there in mysterious circumstances, allegedly killed by the agents of Boris.
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		Ivan Vasiljevich the Terrible was born in 1530 and died in 1584.
		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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	Osmanlı Tarihi Kültürü Medeniyeti Edebiyatı Sanatı
		Thus the boyars, headed by Prince Vasily Shuisky, began to plot against Dmitri and his pro-Polish faction, accusing him of homosexuality, spreading Roman Catholicism and selling Muscovy to jesuits and the Pope, being influenced by Polish and other foreigners and other vices.
		Tsar Vasili Shuiski was unpopular and weak in Russia.
		When tsar Vasili signed a military alliance with Charles IX of Sweden that year (on 28 February 1609), the Commonwealth king Sigismund III, whose primary goal was to regain the Swedish throne, got permission from the Sejm to declare war on Muscovy.
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	Reference Encyclopedia - Ivan the Terrible
		Ivan (or Ioann, as his name is rendered in Church Slavonic) was a long-awaited son of Vasili III.
		She was replaced as regent by boyars from the Shuisky family until Ivan assumed power in 1544.
		According to his own letters, Ivan customarily felt neglected and offended by the mighty boyars from the Shuisky and Belsky families.
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		Tsar Vasili Shuiski was unpopular and weak in Russia and his reign was far from stable.
		He was reinforced by the Poles, and in the spring of 1608 advanced upon Moscow, routing the army of Tsar Vasily Shuisky at Bolkhov.
		Shuiski's family, including the tsars, were captured, and Shuiski was reportedly taken to a monastery, forcibly shaved as a monk, and compelled to remain at the monastery under guard.
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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, Moscow) was the Grand Prince of Moscow from 1505 to 1533.
		The loss of Smolensk was an important injury inflicted by Muscovy on Lithuania in the course of the Russo-Lithuanian Wars and only the exigencies of Sigismund compelled him to acquiesce in its surrender (1522).
		Vasili's greatest problem was the lack of heir.
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		Dmitriy was also lenient to his enemies, pardoning Vasily Shuisky who began to plot against him.
		His extravagant opinion of his own authority (he lost no time in styling himself emperor), and his predilection for Western civilization, alarmed the ultraconservative boyars, who had formerly supported him only to get rid of Boris Godunov.
		The boyars, headed by Prince Vasily Shuisky, began to plot against him, accusing him of spreading Roman Catholicism and other Polish customs, and of sodomy.
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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).
		Shuisky was elected tsar and he showed what he thought of False Dmitri by burning his remains, stuffing them into a cannon and shooting it off in the direction of Poland.
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	Excerpts from GURPS Russia
		Vasili III, Ivan the Great's son, continued gathering the last of the resistant towns of the west (and fighting repeated skirmishes with Poland) and developing diplomatic ties with the leaders of distant lands, including the sultan of Turkey, Suleiman the Magnificent, and Babar (a descendant of Tamerlane), founder of the Mogul Empire in India.
		Shuisky and others began spreading rumors that he was an impostor, after supporting him as the real lost prince.
		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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	Moscow - History
		Vasili was beset by dynastic problems and faced opposition from Yuri Dmitrievich (his uncle), Vasili Kosoi (Yuri's son), Dimitri Shemiaka.
		Vasili captured and blinded Vasili Kosoi, and when Vasili was himself captured later on by Dimitri Shemiaka, he himself was blinded as revenge.
		It was built by vasili 3., according to some sources in the hope of an heir, according to other sources to celebrate the birth of that heir - Ivan the Terrible.
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	Vasili III of Russia - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Image:Vasilii III.jpg Vasili III Ivanovich (Russian: Василий III Иванович, also Basil) (March 251479 – December 31533) was the Grand Prince of Moscow from 1505 to 1533.
		Image:Kolomenskoe voznesenie.jpg Equally successful were Vasili's actions against the Crimean Khanate.
		In 1526, despite much opposition from the clergy, he divorced his barren wife, Solomonida Saburova, and married Princess Elena Glinskaya (Helena Glinska), the daughter of a Serbian princess and niece of his friend Mikhail Hlinski.
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	Netencyclo, l'encyclopÃ©die franÃ§aise : Jaakko de la Gardie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		During the Polish-Russian War (1605-1618), Sweden signed an alliance with tsar Vasili IV of Russia in 1609.
		De la Gardie's forces joined the Russian prince Mikhail Skopin-Shuisky and advanced from Novgorod towards Moscow early in 1610 in support of Vasili IV, whose rule was contested at the time.
		In June of 1610, De la Gardie's forces marched with the Russian army under Prince Dmitry Shuisky (the tsar's brother) to relieve the besieged fortress of Smolensk but were defeated by the Poles at the Battle of Klushino.
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	WikiMiki.net - 1965 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		King Charles IX of Sweden ordered De la Gardie to command the Finnish expeditionary forces of Sweden-Finland inside Russia starting in 1608, first agains the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (known as the De la Gardie Campaign), and later, breaking the alliance, the Ingrian War (1610-1617) against the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
		De la Gardie's forces marched on Moscow early in 1610 in support of Vasili IV of Russia, whose rule was contested at the time.
		In June of 1610, De la Gardie's forces marched with the Russian army under Prince Dmitry Shuisky to relieve the besieged fortress of Smolensk but were defeated at the Battle of Klushino.
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		The Shuisky family is large and prominent in Moscow, but your father's branch is regarded as the poor, rural cousins; you can't count on more than cursory hospitality from your kin.
		The Shuiskys were once among the most powerful Boyars in Moscow, and Prince Vasili Shuisky was Tsar before the Romanov dynasty replaced him.
		That was almost a century ago, but the Shuiskys still have a great deal of power in the government, even if they occasionally lose their lives as a result of a misplayed bid for power.
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		This confirmed the historical account that False Dmitri had ordered the body of Czar Boris to be taken from its sarcophagus and transferred to a poor wooden coffin, which was buried in a remote monastery.
		The boyar Czar Vasili Shuisky, who followed False Dmitri, ordered the moral remains of Ivan the Terrible’s youngest son, Dmitri, to be transferred from Uglich to Moscow and laid in the former grave of Godunov.
		Rumors were spread that the body of the little saint was untouched by decay and that red blood had flowed from his wounds when he was carried to Moscow.
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	Dimitri II of Russia Encyclopedia Article @ RussianWealth.com (Russian Wealth) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Vasily Shuisky who began to plot against him.
		Western civilization, alarmed the ultraconservative boyars, who had formerly supported him only to get rid of
		Vasily Shuisky, began to plot against him, accusing him of spreading
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		Through inheritance, Ivan obtained part of the province of Ryazan, and the princes of Rostov and Yaroslavl' voluntarily subordinated themselves to him.
		The northwestern city of Pskov remained independent in this period, but Ivan's son, Vasili III (r.
		Ivan III was the first Muscovite ruler to use the titles of Tsar and "Ruler of all Rus'".
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	Acidophilus notes \| 14:18 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		1425–1462 : Vasili II, the Blind, son of Vasili I
		1533–1584 : Ivan IV, the Terrible, son of Vasili III, first to be crowned Tsar in 1547
		Suzdal: Barbashin, Brukhaty-Shuisky, Glazaty-Shuisky, Gorbaty-Shuisky, Kirdyapin-Shuisky, Nizhegorodsky, Nogtev-Suzdalsky, Skopin-Shuisky and Shuisky.
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	Study Guide -- Eurasian Studies 201 Test One
		All of these trends were continued under Ivan III's son, Vasili III (1505-1533), who was the father of Ivan IV (the Terrible).
		It was Vasili who actually popularized the theory of Moscow as the Third Rome.
		Also, recall that the back inside cover of your textbook lists all the Russian rulers and the dates of their reigns.
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		Polish-Russian War (1605-1618); Siege of Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra (1608-); Jacob De La Gardie and Russian Prince Mikhail Vasiliyevich Skopin-Shuisky relieve the Trinity Monastery beseiged by the irregualr army of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth supporting False Dmitri II (?-1610)
		Sedish forces under Jacob De La Gardie and Russian forces under the tsar's brother Prince Dmitry Ivanovich Shuisky (?-1613) march to relieve the besieged fortress of Smolensk
		Battle of Klushino (Kłuszyn) ends in victory for the inferior forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth under Hetman Stanisław Żółkiewski (1547-1620) against Russian forces under the tsar's brother Prince Dmitry Ivanovich Shuisky (?-1613), Andrew Golicyn and Danilo Mezecki, supported by 5-10,000 mercenaries, mainly Swedish under Jacob De La Gardie
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	1606 LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
		April 12 - The Union Jack is adopted as the national flag of Great Britain.
		May 17 - Supporters of Vasili Shuisky invade the Kremlin and kill Premier Dmitri.
		December 26 - Shakespeare's King Lear performed in court.
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