Muscovite War of Succession
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The Muscovite War of Succession, or Muscovite Civil War, was a war of succession in the Grand Duchy of Moscow from 1425 to 1453. The two warring parties were Vasily II, the son of the previous Grand P
Sophia of Lithuania insulting Vasily Kosoy during a wedding feast. 1861 painting by Pavel Chistyakov
The Muscovite boyars pledge their support to the dethroned Vasily II
The Blinding of Vasily II, a miniature from the Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible
Novgorod Republic
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The Novgorod Republic, formally known as Lord Novgorod the Great, was a city-state that existed from the 12th to 15th centuries in northwestern Russia, stretching from the Gulf of Finland in the west
Muscovite War of Succession
…relatively small and weak principalities, fighting and making alliances against each other. The larger states (like the Grand Duchy of Moscow and the Republic of Novgorod) progressively conquered or absorbed the smaller ones. One bigger principality, the Grand Duchy of Moscow, grew due to a series of clever policies and…
Battle of the Novgorodians with the Suzdalians in 1170, fragment of a 1460 icon
Martha the Mayoress at the Destruction of the Novgorod Veche, painting by Klavdiy Lebedev, 1889
The removal of the veche bell from Novgorod, miniature from the Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible, 16th century
A fragment of the icon Praying Novgorodians depicting the Kuzmin boyars, 1467