Muscovite War of Succession
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The Muscovite War of Succession,[1][2] or Muscovite Civil War,[3] was a war of succession in the Grand Duchy of Moscow (Muscovy) from 1425 to 1453.[lower-alpha 1] The two warring parties were Vasily II, the son of the previous Grand Prince of Moscow Vasily I, and on the other hand his uncle, Yury Dmitrievich, the Prince of Zvenigorod, and the sons of Yuri Dmitrievich, Vasily Kosoy and Dmitry Shemyaka. In the intermediate stage, the party of Yury conquered Moscow, but in the end, Vasily II regained his crown.
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Sophia of Lithuania insulting Vasily Kosoy during a wedding feast. 1861 painting by Pavel Chistyakov | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Younger Donskoy line | Older Donskoy line | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Vasily Kosoy (1433–4) | ||||||
Vasily II Vasilyevich |
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Vasily II Vasilyevich
Mäxmüd of Kazan (1445–8) Ivan of Mozhaysk [ru; uk] (1445–7) Qasim Khan (1452–3) |
Dmitry II Shemyaka (1439; 1445–53) |
According to Alef (1956), it was "the only struggle for succession in Moscow's history",[5] as well as "the only civil war within the Muscovite principality".[4] He argued that "the death rate in the Moscow family was so high that the dynasty barely maintained itself. When the inheritors to the family patrimony increased sharply at the end of the fourteenth century, an internecine struggle was foreordained. This element helps explain the stability and strength of Moscow in the fourteenth century."[6]