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Key Facts |
| Other names |
Ivan III Vasilevich, Ivan the Great |
| Born |
1440 |
| Location |
Moscow, Russia |
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| Position |
Grand Prince of Moscow |
| Died |
27 October 1505 (aged 65) |
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Source of Facts and Important Announcement |
| Status |
Under Article 64.6 of the Covenant of One-Heaven (Pactum De Singularis Caelum) by Special Qualification shall be known as a Saint, with all sins and evil acts they performed forgiven. |
| Date of formal Beatification |
Day of Redemption UCA[E1:Y1:A1:S1:M9:D1] also known as Fri, 21 Dec 2012. |
| Source of Facts |
Self Confession and Revelation of Sainthood by the Deceased Spirit as condition of their confirmation as a true Saint. |
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Background |
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Born to Vasily II, Grand Prince of Moscow and Maria of Borovsk. Ivan was co-regent with his father in the final years of his life and succeeded him in 1462 at the age of 22. |
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A brilliant political and military strategist, Ivan's first major military campaign was against the Republic of Novgorod which he defeated in battle by 1470. However, his control over Novgorod would not be finalized until 1478 after the Archbishop of Bovgorod recognized his rule. |
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After the death of his first consort, Maria of Tver (1467) at the suggestion of Pope Paul II (1469), who hoped thereby to bind Russia to the holy see, Ivan III wedded Sophia Paleologue (also known under her original Greek and Orthodox name of Zoe), daughter of Thomas Palaeologus , despot of Morea, who claimed the throne of Constantinople as the brother of Constantine XI, last Byzantine emperor. |
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It was through her influence that the ceremonious etiquette of Constantinople (along with the imperial double-headed eagle and all that it implied) was adopted by the court of Moscow. And it was her son Vasily, not Maria of Tver's son, Ivan, who was ultimately crowned co-regent with his father (April 14, 1502). |
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Ivan then set about making Moscow the "new Constantinople" commissioning new laws (Sudebnik by Vladimir Gusev). He also commissioned a number of new buildings including reconstruction of the Kremlin inviting a number of skilled architects from Renaissance Italy, like Pietro Antonio Solari, Garrett Bessegato and Marco Ruffo. |
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It was during his reign that three extant cathedrals of the Kremlin, the Deposition Church, and the Palace of Facets were constructed. The highest building of the city and Muscovite Russia was the Ivan the Great Bell Tower, built in 1505–08 and augmented to its present height in 1600. The Kremlin walls as they now appear were built between 1485 and 1495. |
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It was also during his reign that the customary tribute to the feared and infamous Tatar finally ended when Ivan refused to pay Khan Ahmed. In 1480, while the grand khan was preparing a second expedition to attack Moscow he was in turn attacked and killed by the khan of the Nogay Horde through the promise of land and title by Ivan III. |
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He died in 1505. |
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