The Yugra campaigns were a series of military campaigns against the principalities of Yugra undertaken by the Grand Principality of Moscow during the reign of Ivan III. The campaigns began in 1465 and
The principalities of Yugra in the 16th century
Ivan III Vasilyevich, also known as Ivan the Great, was Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1462 until his death in 1505. Ivan served as the co-ruler and regent for his blind father Vasily II b
Portrait in the Tsarsky titulyarnik, 1672
Ivan's destruction of the Novgorod veche, painting by Klavdy Lebedev (1889)
Variant of the Theotokos of Bogolyubovo showing Metropolitan Jonah, Vasily II and Ivan III leading the classes of society, early 16th century
Depiction of Palm Sunday procession with Ivan III and his family, including his son Vasili and grandson Dmitry, on a shroud belonging to Elena Voloshanka, c. 1498.