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Princess Maria of Tver was the daughter of Grand Prince Boris of Tver and his second wife Anastasia. She was born in 1442. She married Grand Prince Ivan III when he was twelve and she was ten. Died o...
Princess Eudoxia of Moscow was the eighth child and third daughter of Ivan III and Sophia Palaiologina. She was born in 1492 and married a Tatar prince who converted to Christianity and took the name...
Princess Feodosia of Moscow was the seventh child and second daughter of Ivan III and Sophia Palaiologina. She was born on 29 May 1485 and married Prince Vasily Danilovich of Kholm in 1500. She died ...
Princess Elena of Moscow was the first sixth and first daughter of Ivan III and Sophia Palaiologina. She was the third child of Ivan III and Sophia Palaiologina to be given this name after the couple...
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...