Rulers
Vasily III
Completing the unification of the lands
Show on the timeline- Lifespan
- 1479 — 1533
- Reign
- 1505–1533
Continued to centralise the state while retaining the title of grand prince. Pskov (1510) and Ryazan (1521) were annexed to Moscow, and Smolensk was captured during the war with Lithuania (1514).
- Dynasty
- Rurikids
- Centre of power
- Moscow
- Parents
- Ivan III and Sophia Palaiologina
- Wives
- Solomonia Saburova; Elena Glinskaya
- Heir
- Ivan IV