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Prince Andrei of Staritsa was the fifth child and fifth son of Ivan III and Sophia Palaiologina. He was born on 5 August 1490. He married Princess Eufrozyna Chowa?ska of Lithuania in 1533 and died in...
Prince Simeon of Kaluga was the fourth child and fourth son of Ivan III and Sophia Palaiologina. He was born on 21 March 1487 and died at the age of thirty-one in 1518. Buried in the Archangel Cathed...
Prince Dmitry of Uglich was the third child and third son of Ivan III and Sophia Palaiologina. He was born on 6 October 1481 and died in 1521.
Prince Yury of Dmitrov was the second child and second son of Ivan III and Sophia Palaiologina. He was born on 23 March 1480 and died in prison in 1536.
Prince Ivan the Young was the only child and only son of Ivan III and Princess Maria of Tver. He was born on 15 February 1458. From 1471, several documents call him “grand prince” alongside his fathe...
Solomonia Saburova was the daughter of a nobleman called Yury Saburov, who was descended from the Tatar khans who founded the Ipatiev Monastery in Kostroma in the early fourteenth century. She was bo...
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...