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Ivan The Third: The Reign Of Ivan III

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Ivan the Third was born amidst the brutal civil war between his father’s supporters and his uncles’. Much Ivan’s early reign is still unknown today, but we do know that his childhood bride died, leaving him with one son, until three years later he married Zoё Palaeologus, the niece of the the last emperor of Byzantium. Ivan, during the rest of his reign, set himself upon the task to capture Lithuania-Poland and some of the Ukraine territories. He was aligned with the Mongols, but had to deal with the danger of his brothers, Andrey and Boris, rebelling.In the end, they sent their armies to the western fronteirs, but eventually brought them back. The last years of his reign were a disappointment. Much of Ukraine was still left uncaptured, and

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