State · 1263 – 1547

Grand Principality of Moscow

A state of 1263 – 1547 — 284 years in Europe. It replaced Duchy of Moscow and Period of Appanages and followed Vladimir-Suzdal. It was replaced by Tsardom of Russia. The atlas records 23 things within it — wars and battles 8 · people 15. Its line of rulers holds 14 people.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 284 years; 1263 – 1547
Rulers: 14; the Prince of Moscow
Most ground: 2.42 million km²; in 1521
Within it: 23; recorded rows
Symbols: 2; on record, with years

Map: Grand Principality of Moscow in 1521, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Grand Principality of Moscow in 1521, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 2.42 million km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Grand Principality of Moscow in 1294, first mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Grand Principality of Moscow in 1521, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

Duchy of Moscow · replaces
Period of Appanages · replaces
Vladimir-Suzdal · follows · 1125 – 1389

After it

Tsardom of Russia · replaced by · 1547 – 1721

Rulers

The line of Prince of Moscow - the office this state names as its head of state.

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roada second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Daniel of Moscow	1263 – 1303	40 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Yury of Moscow	1303 – 1325	22 years	killedWikidata's manner of death	child
Ivan I of Moscow	1325 – 1340	15 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Simeon of Moscow	1340 – 1353	13 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death	child
Ivan II of Moscow	1353 – 1359	6 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Dmitry Donskoy	1359 – 1389	30 years	died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell	child
Vasily I of Moscow	1389 – 1425	36 years	died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell	child
Vasily II of Moscow	1425 – 1433	8 years	deposed or killedcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell	child
Yury of Zvenigorod	1433 – 1433	under a year	deposed or killedcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell
Vasily Kosoy	1434 – 1434	under a year	ended otherwise, as coded — neither deposed nor a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell	child
Vasily II of Moscow	1434 – 1445	11 years	deposed or killedcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell
Dmitry Shemyaka	1445 – 1445	under a year	deposed or killedcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell
Vasily II of Moscow	1445 – 1446	1 year	deposed or killedcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell
Ivan III of Russia	1452 – 1505	53 years	died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell	child
Dmitry Ivanovich	1498 – 1502	4 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	grandchild
Vasili III of Russia	1502 – 1505	3 years	died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell

14 rulers, 14 with terms dated as terms, covering 1263 – 1505. Median reign 9.5 years. 7 of 15 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

10,200 km² in 1303, 2.42 million km² in 1543; at its largest 2.42 million km² in 1523. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

coat of arms, undatedSeal of Ivan 3 (obverse) · Public domain
coat of arms, undatedSeal of Ivan 3 (reverse) · Public domain

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1200 – 12993 rows

Ivan I of Moscow · ruler · 1288 – 1341
Daniel of Moscow · ruler · 1261 – 1303
Yury of Moscow · ruler · 1281 – 1325

1300 – 13998 rows · 3 wars and battles

Dmitry Donskoy · ruler · 1350 – 1389
Battle of Kulikovo · battle · 1380
Ivan II of Moscow · ruler · 1326 – 1359
Vasily I of Moscow · ruler · 1372 – 1425
Simeon of Moscow · ruler · 1316 – 1353
Siege of Moscow · battle · 1382
Yury of Zvenigorod · ruler · 1374 – 1434
Lithuanian–Muscovite War · war · 1368 – 1372

1400 – 14998 rows · 3 wars and battles

Ivan III of Russia · ruler · 1440 – 1505
Vasili III of Russia · ruler · 1479 – 1533
Vasily II of Moscow · ruler · 1415 – 1462
Great Stand on the Ugra River · battle · 1480
Vasily Kosoy · ruler · 1421 – 1448
Dmitry Ivanovich · ruler · 1483 – 1509
Muscovite War of Succession · war · 1425 – 1453
Battle of Suzdal · battle · 1445

1500 – 15994 rows · 2 wars and battles

Andrey Kurbsky · commander · 1528 – 1583
Russo-Crimean Wars · war · 1507 – 1572
Ivan Fyodorov · religious leader · 1510 – 1583
Battle of Vedrosha · battle · 1500

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood284 years
stood longer than 72% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held2,419,200 km²
held more ground at its peak than 93% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per century1.1
had more wars on record per century than 96% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median11 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 38% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record14
has more rulers on record than 87% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 3 causes the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1235 – 1575, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1521, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q170770 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.