[...]... becomes prince of Vladimir Death of Iaroslav Vasilii Iaroslavich becomes prince of Vladimir Death of Vasilii; Dmitrii Aleksandrovich becomes prince of Vladimir Death of Dmitrii; Andrei Aleksandrovich becomes prince of Vladimir Metropolitan Maksim moves from Kiev to Vladimir Death of Andrei; Mikhail Iaroslavich of Tver’ becomes prince of Vladimir Mikhail executed by Khan Uzbek; Iurii Daniilovich of Moscow... Daniilovich of Moscow (Ivan I Kalita) becomes sole grand prince of Vladimir Death of Ivan Kalita; Semen Ivanovich becomes grand prince of Vladimir Death of Semen; Ivan II Ivanovich becomes grand prince of Vladimir Death of Ivan II Dmitrii Ivanovich of Moscow (Dmitrii Donskoi) becomes grand prince of Vladimir Battle of Kulikovo Death of Dmitrii Donskoi; Vasilii I Dmitr’evich becomes grand prince of Vladimir... Death of Vasilii I; Vasilii II Vasil’evich becomes grand prince of Vladimir Council of Ferrara-Florence: proclaims reunion of Orthodox and Catholic Churches Vasilii II rejects union with Rome, and deposes Metropolitan Isidor Russian bishops elect Bishop Iona of Riazan’ as metropolitan Constantinople falls to the Turks Treaty of Iazhelbitsii with Novgorod Death of Vasilii II; Ivan III Vasil’evich becomes... Ukrainian Studies Istoricheskie Zapiski Jahrb¨ cher f¨ r Geschichte Osteuropas u u Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History (new series) Leningradskii Gosudarstvennyi Universitet Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History Moskovskii Gosudarstvennyi Universitet Pamiatniki russkogo prava Polnoe sobranie russkikh letopisei Rossiiskaia Akademiia Nauk Russian History / Histoire Russe Russian... grand prince of Muscovy Sophia Palaeologa becomes second wife of Ivan III Ivan III annexes Novgorod Encounter with Great Horde on River Ugra Ivan III annexes Tver’ Law Code (sudebnik) issued Ivan III has his grandson Dmitrii Ivanovich crowned as co-ruler and heir Ivan III arrests Dmitrii Ivanovich Church Council meets Heretics are condemned by a Church Council Death of Ivan III; Vasilii III Ivanovich becomes... Belarusian states as well as by the Russian Federation Instead of projecting present-day political and ethnic/national identities into the past, I have chosen to use the dynastic-political criteria which operated in the period itself: thus, the volume focuses on the territories ruled by the Riurikid dynasty (the descendants of the semi-legendary figure of Riurik the Viking) from the tenth to the sixteenth... as the ‘apanage period’ or the ‘period of feudal fragmentation’) In Part II the subdivision into the four ‘chronological’ chapters is again political-dynastic The first of these (Chapter 9) covers the reigns of Grand Princes Ivan III (1462–1505) and Vasilii III (1505–33) – a period which witnessed the process sometimes known as the ‘gathering of the lands of Rus” (the territorial expansion of Moscow to. .. is Professor of History at the University of Miami and author of Treasure of the Land of Darkness: The Fur Trade and its Significance for Medieval Russia (1986, pb 2004) and Medieval Russia 980–1 5 84 (1995) dav i d b m i l l e r is Emeritus Professor of Russian History at Roosevelt University, Chicago, and the author of The Velikie Minei Chetii and the Stepennaia Kniga of Metropolitan Makarii and the. .. Death of Sviatoslav, son of Igor’ and Ol’ga Death of Iaropolk Sviatoslavich Rule of Vladimir I Sviatoslavich as prince of Kiev Vladimir converts Rus’ to Orthodox Christianity Death of Vladimir; Sviatopolk Vladimirovich becomes prince of Kiev Iaroslav Vladimirovich ( the Wise’) becomes sole ruler in Kiev Schism between Eastern and Western Christianity Death of Iaroslav the Wise; Iziaslav Iaroslavich becomes... Vasilii III divorces his first wife, Solomoniia Vasilii III marries Elena Glinskaia Death of Vasilii III; Ivan IV Vasil’evich becomes grand prince Death of Ivan’s mother, the regent Elena Glinskaia Makarii becomes metropolitan Ivan IV is crowned with the title of ‘tsar’ New Law Code issued Stoglav Church Council meets Conquest of Kazan’ Conquest of Astrakhan’ Livonian war Death of Metropolitan Makarii oprichnina . Terrible in Stalin’s Russia (2001). Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 the cambridge history of RUSSIA This is a definitive new history of Russia from early Rus’ to the successorstates. Death of Ivan III; Vasilii III Ivanovich becomes grand prince 1510 Vasilii III annexes Pskov 1514 Vasilii III annexes Smolensk 1521 Vasilii III annexes Riazan’ 1521 Crimean Tatars attack Moscow xix Cambridge. Vladimir 1380 Battle of Kulikovo 1389 Death of Dmitrii Donskoi; Vasilii I Dmitr’evich becomes grand prince of Vladimir 1425 Death of Vasilii I; Vasilii II Vasil’evich becomes grand prince of Vladimir 1437–9