Vasily I of Moscow

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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Dmitriyevich.
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Vasily I Dmitriyevich (

Grand Prince of Vladimir and Moscow from 1389.[1][2] He was the heir of Dmitry Donskoy
, who reigned from 1359 to 1389.

He entered an alliance with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1392 and married Sophia, the only daughter of Vytautas, though the alliance turned out to be fragile, and they waged war against each other in 1406–1408.

The raid on the

Turco-Mongol emir Timur resulted in a state of anarchy for the Golden Horde and the independence of Moscow
. In 1412, Vasily resumed submission to the Horde.

Family and early life

Vasily was the oldest son of

Dmitry Konstantinovich of Nizhny Novgorod
.

Reign

Vytautas the Great
.

While still a young man, Vasily, who was the eldest son of Grand Prince Dmitry Donskoy (ruled Moscow 1359–89), travelled to the Tatar khan Tokhtamysh (1383) to obtain the Khan's

Tamerlane), he escaped and returned to Moscow.[3]

With Tokhtamysh's permission, Vasily I took over

Veliki Ustyug and the lands of the Komi peoples were annexed.[citation needed
]

To prevent Muscovy from being attacked by the

Jogaila, which discriminated against Orthodox Christians, caused Lithuania to lose its influence over the Russian states.[7]

Mongol emir

Olug Moxammat, though vast sums of money were collected in the Moscow treasury for military purposes.[8]

In 1408 Edigu burnt Nizhny Novgorod, Gorodets, Rostov, and many other towns but failed to take Moscow, though he had still burnt it. In 1412, however, Vasily found it necessary to pay the long-deferred visit of submission to the Horde.[8]

The growing influence of Moscow abroad was underlined by the fact that Vasily married his daughter Anna to Emperor

John VIII Palaeologus of Byzantium.[citation needed
]

Domestic policy

Lazar the Serb showing Vasily the clock.

During his reign,

judicial powers of landowners were partially diminished and transferred to Vasily's deputies and heads of volosts.[citation needed
]

Chronicles speak of a monk called

mechanical clock in Moscow and the first in any Russian city.[9] It was among the first ten such advanced clocks in Europe, and was regarded as a technical miracle at the time.[10][11]

The most important ecclesiastical event of the reign was the elevation of the Bulgarian, Gregory Tsamblak, to the metropolitan see of Kiev by Vytautas, grand-duke of Lithuania; the immediate political consequence of which was the weakening of the hold of Moscow on southwestern Rus'.[8]

Marriage and children

Vasily married

Vytautas the Great and his wife, Anna
. They had nine known children, five boys (of which only one survived to mature adulthood) and four girls:

Sophia also suffered many miscarriages: [citation needed]

  • A miscarriage of a daughter in the 4th month of pregnancy (19 December 1391).
  • A miscarriage of a daughter in the 6th month of pregnancy (16 August 1392).
  • A miscarriage in the 1st month of pregnancy (22 January 1394).
  • A miscarriage of a son in the 4th and a half-month of pregnancy (17 January 1396).
  • A miscarriage in the 1st month of pregnancy (4 December 1398).
  • A miscarriage in the 1st month of pregnancy (30 January 1399).
  • A miscarriage in the 1st month of pregnancy (30 March 1401).
  • A miscarriage of a son in the 5th and a half-month of pregnancy (11 January 1403).
  • A miscarriage of a son in the 4th and a half-month of pregnancy (20 March 1406).
  • A miscarriage in 1410.
  • A miscarriage in 1412.
  • A miscarriage in 1414.
  • A miscarriage in 1416.
  • A miscarriage in 1418.
  • A miscarriage in 1420.

See also

References

  1. ISBN 9780028656939
    .
  2. ISBN 0582080673
    .
  3. ^ Vasily I. (2017). Britannica Online Academic Edition, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc
  4. ^ Halperin 1987, p. 75.
  5. ^ Richard Pipes, Russia under the old regime, p. 80
  6. ^ An Unproclaimed Empire: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania by Norkus, Zenonas pg. 50
  7. ISBN 9781644697139
    .
  8. ^ a b c  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bain, Robert Nisbet (1911). "Basil s.v. Basil I. Dmitrevich". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 468.
  9. ^ Williams, Edward V. (2014). The Bells of Russia History and Technology. Princeton University Press. pp. 70–71.
  10. ^ Radetić, M. (December 4, 2004). "Šest vekova Lazarevog sata". Novosti.
  11. ISBN 9788684183066
    .

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Regnal titles
Preceded by
Grand Prince of Moscow

1389–1425 		Succeeded by
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