Dmitry Ivanovich
Grand Prince of Moscow
1483 CE to 1509 CE
Dmitry Ivanovich Vnuk (the Grandson) (1483–1509)m grandson of Ivan III, is Grand Prince of Moscow between 1498 and 1502.
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Ivan the Young, Ivan's son with Maria of Tver, had died in 1490, leaving from his marriage with Helen of Moldavia an only child, Dmitry the Grandson.
The latter had been crowned as successor by his grandfather on February 15, 1498, but Ivan later reverts his decision in favor of Sophia's elder son Vasily, who is ultimately crowned co-regent with his father on April 14, 1502).
The decision is dictated by the crisis connected with the Sect of Skhariya the Jew, as well as by the imperial prestige of Sophia's descendants.
Dmitry the Grandson is put into prison, where he will die, unmarried and childless, in 1509, already under the rule of his uncle.
The Grand Duke is increasingly aloof from his boyars, who are no longer consulted on affairs of state.
The old patriarchal systems of government have vanished.
The sovereign has become sacrosanct, while the boyars are reduced to dependency on the will of the sovereign.
The boyars naturally resent this revolution and struggle against it.
Moscow has experienced an impressive building campaign directed by Italian artists and artisans during the long reign of Grand Prince Ivan III.
Additional Russian church councils directed against the heresy of the Sect of Skhariya the Jew had been held in 1494 and 1504.
Diak (secretary) Ivan-Volk Kuritsyn, Dmitry Konoplev and Ivan Maksimov had in 1504, been burned at the stake.
Following the conversion to Judaism of a few high officials, the Russian government on December 27, 1504, expels “proselytizing” Jews from Moscow and Kiev.
Some of the adherents of the Sect of Skhariya the Jew had remained under the protection of Yelena Stefanovna and her son Tsarevich Dmitry, the grandson of Ivan III).
However, in 1502 Dmitry had been stripped of his title (it had been transferred to Vasili the son of Ivan III and Sophia Paleologue).
Ivan III dies on October 27, 1505; his eldest son succeeds him as Vasili III.
Yelena and Dmitry are arrested and imprisoned in 1505, leaving the adherents vulnerable to attacks from the authorities.
Other adherents are banished, imprisoned, or excommunicated.
Feodor Kuritsyn's adherents' club has ceased to exist.