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underage Ivan IV, she did everything to
preserve the entire Grand Muscovite Principality
with as little harm as possible, and
to continuously strengthen the authority
of her grandson – “he is a child, but the
princely scepter is not a child”. She did it,
at first not in alliance, which will happen
later, with the support of Metropolitan
of Moscow Makarije, because both boyar
sides also attacked the generous privileges
the church received from Ivan III, Vasili III
and Elena Vasilyevna, especially the wealth
thereby gained.
Ana Glinskaya, upon the suggestion
of the Metropolitan, with the approval
of both the Shuyski and the Belski families
(because he was a boyar, but did not
belong to any side), provided Ivan a Russian
teacher, Fyodor Demid Semyenchich
Voronzov, with the title of main consultant.
Since Voronzov was a duke and diplomat
of Vasili III and Elena Vasilyevna,
the Glinski family counted on his certain
loyalty to the Rurikovich dynasty. The
loyalty proved to be complete and Ivan
IV not only gained a great teacher of the
dynasty history and good adviser, but
also a trustworthy friend, with whom his
awareness of the state was formed, giving
him his first feeling of power and responsibility.
It was also the awareness that he
reached his legal age, the age of 16 at the
time in the Grand Principality, when he
must take over full responsibility. When
the rampant boyars, unsatisfied with this
friendship, ordered beating, arresting and
execution of Voronzov, Ivan not only
freed him with the help of Metropolitan
Makarije, but also placed him as head of
government. Only a few months later, due
to the alleged conspiracy of Voronzov
against Ivan, he was forced by the boyars
to sign a court decision on exile. However,
the boyars never regained power. A year
before Ivan reached legal age, Ana Glinskaya
took over the reign of the Grand
Muscovite Principality with her sons,
on behalf of the one who will soon take
over the entire power. Ivan IV began his
rule as grand prince, which he immediately
turned into autocracy, with settling
accounts with the boyars who, united in
hatred, killed his uncle Yuri Glinski at the
Cathedral of the Dormition. At the same
time, defending his grandmother, Princess
Ana, who filled his soul with Serbian
cults of St. Sava and Prince Lazar, he settled
accounts with the masses incited by
the boyars’ wildness and the great arson
in Moscow.
The center of
the “Third Rome”:
The Red Square
in Moscow
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