By the end of the 15th century, many of the petty principalities around Moscow had been united with the Grand Duchy of Moscow, which took full control of its own sovereignty under Ivan the Great. Ivan the Terrible transformed the Grand Duchy into the Tsardom of Russia in 1547.

Russian Empire reached its maximum territory in Asia with the Russo-Japanese War, where after its defeat, Russia ceded Manchuria, southern Sakhalin, Russian Dalian, and Port Arthur to Japan with the Treaty of Portsmouth, though Russia kept the northern portion of …

2025年1月27日 · In the flux of social and economic life in the 15th and 16th centuries, three interconnected processes may be observed: a steady economic growth, mainly from colonization and trade; an expansion in the power of the central government; and the encroachment of the nobility upon the lands previously held by the free peasantry, accompanied by the ...

The 15th century began with Moscow and other Rus lands playing a second role to a powerful Lithuania, whose Grand Duke Vytautas was the most influential leader in the region. Moscow was then weakened further with a civil war which lasted on and off for several decades.

Pages in category "15th century in Russia" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.

2012年4月26日 · 15th century - The Muscovite princes pursue a policy of "gathering the Russian lands", a drive to annex all East Slavic lands. Ivan III (the Great) subdues most of the Great Russian lands by...

2014年5月29日 · The 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries were thus a dynamic and discrete period, when Russia both settled issues of its own particular history—its political unity, its succession system, its economic life, and its expansion into new territories—and continued and deepened its involvement with the rest of Europe.

The first state-like formations, in the present-day territory of Russia, emerged around Novgorod and Kiev in the 9th century. Russia was then dominated by Vikings. After 250 years of Mongol supremacy, from the 13th century, Moscow became the most important power base in Russia.

CHRONOLOGY - 15th CENTURY RUSSIA : MICHA JELISAVCIC JOHN SLOAN : Return to 14th century. 1401-07 AD: Yedigei installs Sadi Beg (Shadibek) as Khan of Kypchak Khanate (Ulus Juchi). Sadi, Beg restores closer ties with Moscow. 1401 AD: Vasilii fails again in attempt to wrest northern Dvina region from Novgorod. 1403 AD

2024年12月9日 · The Skazanie is a romance composed in the 15th century, relating the struggle of the Muscovian Grand Prince, Dmitri Donskoj, against his Tartar opponent, Mamai. The central focus is the battle of Kulikovo (1380) at which Mamai was routed.