MUSCOVITE RUSSIA

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MUSCOVITE RUSSIA
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MUSCOVITE RUSSIA

• END OF MONGOL RULE
• Formal repudiation, 1480
• But Russians had stopped paying formal tribute
  in 1452
• Khans last efforts to reign in Russians fail

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MUSCOVITE RUSSIA

• THE RISE OF AUTOCRACY
• Ivan III as heir to Byzantium Kiev
• Marries Sophia Paleologus, niece of last
  Byzantine Emperor
• Invests office with greater prestige authority
• adopts formal Byzantine court rituals ceremony
• begins using titles TSAR, AUTOCRAT GOSUDAR

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MUSCOVITE RUSSIA

• THE RISE OF AUTOCRACY
• Ivan III
• Administrative changes aimed at increasing
  control
• Redistribution of land from votchina to
  pomestie
• New codification of laws Sudebnik

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MUSCOVITE RUSSIA

• THE RISE OF AUTOCRACY
• Ivan III
• Built up Moscow
• gave city new grandeur

Uspenskii Sobor (Assumption Cathedral)
Granovitaia Palace
Blagoveshchenskii Sobor (Annunciation Cathedral)
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MUSCOVITE RUSSIA

• THE RISE OF AUTOCRACY
• Vasili III (r. 1505-1533)
• Annexes all remaining appanages
• Expands Russian borders
• Establishes relations with great powers of time

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MUSCOVITE RUSSIA

• THE CHURCH
• Moscow as the THIRD ROME
• Moscow as the new legitimate center of
  Orthodox Christianity
• Strengthened authority prestige of Moscow
  ruler
• Russian Orthodoxy takes on messianistic qualities

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MUSCOVITE RUSSIA

• THE CHURCH
• POSSESSORS V. NON-POSSESSORS
• Possessors wanted close connection between
  church tsar
• Non-Possessors (Trans-Volga Elders) wanted poor
  church independent from state
• Possessors emerge victorious
• Now Church state work to support each other

Joseph of Volotsk
Nil Sorskii
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THE RISE OF MOSCOW

• WHY DID MOSCOW SUCCEED?
• Geographic location
• Role of princes
• Relationship with Mongols
• Role of Church