Dmitry Ivanovich (grandson of Ivan III)
Dmitri Ivanovich, called the grandson (Russian: Дмитрий ( Иванович ) Внук, Dmitri Ivanovich Wnuk ) (* October 10, 1483 in Moscow, † February 14, 1509 in Moscow) was a grandson of Tsar Ivan III. temporarily Grand Duke and heir to the throne of the Grand Principality of Moscow.
Life
Dmitri was. , The son of Ivan Ivanovitch, " the boy ," the eldest son and so heir to the throne of Ivan III, and the daughter of Moldavian prince Stephen the Great Helena, Russian Yelena Stepanova, called " Woloschanka ", was born.
On March 7, 1490 Ivan Ivanovich died in the lifetime of his father. In the following years there were intrigues between supporters of the second son of Ivan III. ( from the second wife Sofia Palaiologa ) Vasily and his grandson Dmitry succession to the throne. Initially favored Ivan III. his grandson, who already in 1495 accompanied him to Novgorod, and he was crowned in the Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin with the cap of Monomakh on February 4, 1498 and declared a Grand Duke, heir to the throne and formal co-regent.
A noticeable political role of the only 14 -year-old Dmitri did not play obviously. In addition, Ivan III took. also trust back to his son Vasily, and made him in 1499 for Grand Duke of Novgorod and Pskov. In particular, after the resumption of the war against the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1500 Wassilis influence continued to grow.
On April 11, 1502 Dmitri were deprived of the title of Grand Prince of Moscow and Vladimir and heir to the throne again and a little later handed over to Vassily. The exact reason for this development is not known. Dmitri and his mother were placed under arrest and imprisoned later. Vasily entered on October 27, 1505 Vasily III. succeeded his father as Czar of Russia.
After the death of his mother in 1505 Dmitri died on February 14, 1509 in the dungeon under unknown circumstances ( " hunger and cold " or smoke inhalation are given ), but was buried in the Archangel Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin, the burial place of all Russian tsars before Peter I.