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Ivan 111 biography
Ivan III (Muscovy) (1440–1505; Ruled 1462–1505)
(1440–1505), grand prince of Moscow (1462–1505), sovereign of "all Russia" (from 1479).
Ivan Vasilyeich was the eldest son and successor to Basil II, co-regent in the last years of his blind father.
Ivan's youth coincided with the dynastic war, in which he took part at age twelve, leading the campaign against Dmitry Shemyaka (1452). Thereafter, Ivan became a steady champion of autocratic rule.
Under Ivan III's reign, the uniting of separate Russian principalities into a centralized state made great and rapid progress.
Some of these principalities lost their independence peacefully (Yaroslavl, 1463–1468; Rostov, 1474); others tried to resist and were subjugated by military force (Great Novgorod, 1471–1478; Tver, 1485; Vyatka, 1489).
The incorporation of Great Novgorod into the emerging Muscovite state took especially dramatic form.
When Novgorodian boyars questioned the sovereignty of the grand prince ov