12) Basil III. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Basil III, Russian ruler: see Vasily III....

13) Gallitzin. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...princely family. Among many alternate spellings are Galitzin, Galytzin, and Galitsin. Vasily Vasilyevich Gallitzin, d. 1619, helped to enthrone the first false Dmitri...

14) Ivan IV. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...ruler to assume formally the title of czar. 1 Early ReignIvan succeeded his father Vasily III, who died in 1533, under the regency of his mother. When she died (1538),...

15) Sophia Alekseyevna. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...jointly. She brutally eliminated her opponents and ruled autocratically with her lover Vasily V. Gallitzin (see under Gallitzin). Sophia wished to be crowned czarina...

16) Sigismund I. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...a regular army and a fiscal system to finance its maintenance. Intermittent war with Vasily III of Moscow began in 1507; in 1514 Smolensk fell to the Muscovite forces....

17) byliny. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...also is the Novgorod cycle, concerning the adventures of the merchant prince Sadko and Vasily Buslayevich. A third cycle of Older Heroes relates tales of the strong...

18) Witowt. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Poland and to assume the title of grand duke. With the help of the Teutonic Knights and Vasily I, prince of Moscow, he secured recognition as master of Lithuania...

19) Dmitri. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...to Marina Mniszech, a Polish noblewoman, aroused the opposition of the boyars, led by Prince Vasily Shuiski. An insurrection was provoked in Moscow, and Dmitri was...

20) Ivan III. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...architects erected churches, palaces, and fortifications. Ivan was succeeded by his son, Vasily III. 1See study by R. M. Crowskey (1987). 2...