Vasily III. History of Russian Goverment. With illustrations. Karamzin N.

The personality of the Grand Duke of Moscow Vasily III for a long time remained in the shadow of his predecessor Ivan III and the heir Ivan the Terrible. Meanwhile, it was Vasily Ivanovich that completed the collection of the original Russian lands around Moscow, accepting the Ryazan, Smolensk and Pskov principalities into the unified state. Vasily III was the first prince, whose rule was no longer overshadowed by the Horde dependence. Under him, the ideological and religious concept of “Moscow is the Third Rome”, voiced by the abbot of the Spaso-Eleazarovsky monastery Filofem, is formed. The Princess of Vasily III is dedicated to the seventh volume of fundamental labor N.M. Karamzin "History of the Russian State." The assessment given to Vasily III N.M. Karamzin, complement the works of historians S.M. Soloviev and N.I. Kostomarova, as well as notes of foreign travelers who visited the Russian state at the end of the XV - the first half of the 16th century.