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Elena Glinska was the daughter of Prince Wasyl Glinski of Lithuania and Princess Ana Jakši? of Serbia. The Glinski family moved from Poland to Muscovy in 1507, where Elena was born circa 1508. In 152...
Prince Yury (Georgy) was the second child and second son of Basil III and Elena Glinska. He was born on 30 October 1532. He was a feeble degenerate. He married Princess Ulyana of Palekh (1558) and ha...
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Tsarevich Ivan was the first child and first son of Ivan the Terrible and Anastasia Zakharina-Yurieva. He was born in 1554. Ivan had three wives – Eudoxia Saburova, Praskovia Solovaya and Elena Shere...
Vladimir was the son of Prince Svyatoslav the Brave of Kiev and a housekeeper called Malusha. In 970, he was elected the prince of Novgorod. Six years later, he learnt that one of his brothers, Yarop...
Basil III was the first child and first son of Ivan III and Sophia Palaiologina. He was born on 25 March 1479. He continued the policies of his father, displaying firmness, consistency and patience i...
Ivan III was the first child and eldest son of Grand Prince Basil II the Blind and Princess Maria of Borovsk. He was born in Moscow on 22 January 1440. Tall and slim, he suffered from a slight stoop,...
Ivan IV was the first child and first son of Basil III and Elena Glinska. He was born on 25 August 1530 in the village of Kolomenskoe near Moscow. When he was three, his father died and was succeeded...
Feodor I was the second child and second son of Ivan the Terrible and Anastasia Zakharina-Yurieva. He was born in Moscow on 31 May 1557. A contemporary described Feodor as “short, squat and fattish, ...