Tver Uprising of 1327
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The Tver Uprising of 1327 was a popular uprising against the Golden Horde by the people of the Principality of Tver. Their prince, Aleksandr, eventually fled to Pskov. The Tatars dispatched a punitive
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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.
Tver Uprising of 1327
…Uprising of 1327 (Russian: Тверское восстание) was a popular uprising against the Golden Horde by the people of the Principality of Tver. Their prince, Aleksandr, eventually fled to Pskov. The Tatars dispatched a punitive force led by Ivan I of Moscow and Aleksandr of Suzdal to crush the uprising. The following…
Prince Aleksandr of Tver in Pskov, engraving by Boris Chorikov (1836)
Death and body of Alexander Mikhailovich of Tver, miniature from the Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible (16th century)