Basil Iii

Related Category: Russian, Soviet, and CIS History: Biographies

Russian ruler: see Vasily III.

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Vasily Iii - 1479–1533, grand duke of Moscow Ryazan and Novgorod-Seversk (1523) and gaining Smolensk (1514) in a war with Sigismund I of Poland and Lithuania. In 1525, he forced his childless first wife to...