Aleksandr of Tver
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Aleksandr Mikhailovich was Prince of Tver and Grand Prince of Vladimir from 1326 to 1327 and Grand Prince of Tver from 1338 until his death in 1339.
Prince Aleksandr of Tver in Pskov, engraving by Boris Chorikov (1836)
A mob in Tver burning the Khan's cousin Shevkal alive in 1327, miniature from the Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible (16th century)
Death and body of Alexander Mikhailovich of Tver, miniature from the Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible (16th century)
Ivan I of Moscow
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Ivan I Danilovich Kalita was Prince of Moscow from 1325 and Grand Prince of Vladimir from 1331 until his death in 1340.
Aleksandr of Tver
…the whole incident may have been a provocation by the Tatars to destroy Aleksandr and the princes of Tver. Özbeg dispatched a punitive force led by Ivan I of Moscow, the brother of Yury, to sack the city. Ivan was given 50,000 Tatar troops and was joined by Aleksandr Vasilyevich of Suzdal. After Novgorod refused…
Portrait in the Tsarsky titulyarnik (1672)
Fresco of Ivan Kalita and his son Simeon in the Cathedral of the Archangel in Moscow, 1652–1666
Seal of Ivan Kalita
Ivan's testament, c. 1339