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BASIL I

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BASIL I . DMITREVICH (1371-1425), SOH of Dmitri (See also:Demetrius) Donskoi, whom he succeeded in 1389, married See also:Sophia, the daughter of Vitovt, See also:grand-See also:duke of Lithuania. In his reign the grand-duchy of Muscovy became practically hereditary, and asserted its supremacy over all the surrounding principalities. Nevertheless Basil received his yarluik, or See also:investiture, from the See also:Golden See also:Horde and was compelled to pay See also:tribute to the grand See also:khan, Tokhtamuish. He annexed the principality of Suzdal to Moscovy, together with See also:Murom, Kozelsk Peremyshl, and other places; reduced the grand-duchy of Rostov to a See also:state of vassalage; and acquired territory from the See also:republic of See also:Great See also:Novgorod by treaty. In his reign occurred the invasion of Timur (1395), who ruined the Volgan regions, but did not penetrate so far as See also:Moscow. Indeed Timur's See also:raid was of service to the See also:Russian See also:prince as it all but wiped out the Golden Horde, which for the next twelve years was in a state of anarchy. During the whole of this See also:time no tribute was paid to the khan, though vast sums of See also:money were collected in the Moscow See also:treasury for military purposes. In 1408 the Mirza Edigei ravaged See also:Muscovite territory, but was unable to take Moscow. In 1412, however, Basil found it necessary to pay the See also:long-deferred visit of sub-See also:mission to the Horde. The most important ecclesiastical event of the reign was the See also:elevation of the Bulgarian, See also:Gregory Tsamblak, to the See also:metropolitan see of See also:Kiev (1425) by Vitovt, grand-duke of Lithuania; the immediate See also:political consequence of which was the weakening of the hold of Muscovy on the See also:south-western Russian states. During Basil's reign a terrible visitation of the " See also:Black See also:Death " decimated the See also:population.

See T. Schiemann, Russland bis ins 17. Jahrhundert (See also:

Gotha, 1885-1887).

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