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3 days ago · Dmitry of Tver (1299–1326), nicknamed "The Fearsome Eyes" Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich of Russia (born 1582) (1582–1591), the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible Later impostors claimed to be this son: False Dmitry I (Grigory Otrepyev), appeared 1605–1606; False Dmitry II, appeared 1607–1610; False Dmitry III, appeared 1611–1612
6 days ago · The struggle began at the death of Vasily I, a son of Dmitry Donskoy, in 1425. The succession of his 10-year-old son Vasily II was challenged by his uncle Yury, prince of the important upper Volga commercial town of Galich. After many turns of fortune, Vasily II succeeded, with the help of Lithuanian and Tatar allies, in establishing his house ...
6 days ago · Henry Cavill plays Gus March-Phillipps in The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. The leader of a crew established by the UK government to destroy the Italian supply ship Duchessa d'Aosta and two ...
2 days ago · In 1378 a Muscovite army repulsed a Mongol attack on the Vozha River south of the town, and in 1380 Prince Dmitry of Moscow inflicted a crushing defeat on the Mongols under the great khan Mamai in the Battle of Kulikovo on the Don River, for which he was thereafter known as Dmitry Donskoy (“of the Don”). The Kremlin had been enlarged and given walls and towers of white limestone in 1367 ...
3 days ago · Dmitry Kochnev, who has been at its head for nearly six years, is a loyal Putin aide with a fist of iron. Russia's offensives in Ukraine have led inevitably to a closing of ranks around Russian president Vladimir Putin. The Russian president, who is already attended by a small inner circle of loyal aides - the siloviki (IO, 23/11/21 ), is also ...
3 days ago · Yaroslavl Oblast ( Russian: Яросла́вская о́бласть, romanized : Yaroslavskaya oblast') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast ), which is located in the Central Federal District, surrounded by the Tver, Moscow, Ivanovo, Vladimir, Kostroma, and Vologda oblasts. This geographic location affords the oblast the advantages of ...
4 days ago · France, Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom Appraisers clash over Dmitry Firtash's Bordeaux chateau in London Thrown off balance in Moscow and Washington, the Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash is also fighting Russia's VTB Bank in London over the freeze of his assets in western Europe, including a French vineyard run by his right-hand-man, Briton Robert Shetler-Jones.
