Tver' (Kalinin) Tverskaya Oblast Russia
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Tver, situated on the upper Volga River and founded in the twelfth century, had become the center of an independent Russian principality that rivals Moscow until the elimination of its ruler by Ivan III and its consequent absorption by the Muscovite state in 1485.
Ivan’s army, en route from Moscow to Novgorod, destroys towns, including Tver' (Kalinin), and slaughters the inhabitants.
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