Ivan III the Great
1440 CE–1505 CE · Moscow
Ivan III the Great (1440–1505) was Grand Prince of Moscow from 1462 and is regarded as a principal architect of the centralized Russian state. He annexed the great rival republic of Novgorod along with Tver and other principalities, greatly enlarging Moscow's territory. In 1480, after the standoff on the Ugra River, he ended the tributary subordination of the Russian lands to the Tatars of the Great Horde. He also codified law in the Sudebnik of 1497 and, through his marriage to Sophia Palaiologina, adopted Byzantine court symbolism such as the double-headed eagle.
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