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Ivan the Great

noun

Grand duke of Muscovy whose victories against the Tartars laid the basis for Russian unity (1440-1505). Synonyms: Ivan III, Ivan III Vasilievich.

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... assemblies, but the imperial power as represented by the police and military is felt in all parts, while governors of departments have wide and ill-defined powers which admit of abuse. The great builders of the empire, the beginnings of which are to be sought in the 9th century, have been Ivan the Great, who in the 15th century drove out the Mongols and established his capital as Moscow; Ivan the Terrible, the first of the czars, who in the 16th century pushed into Asia and down to the Black Sea; and PETER THE GREAT (q. v.). Its restless energies are still unabated, and inspire a persistently ...

— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood

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... the fifteenth century, the Muscovite ideas of Right were subjected to the strong mind of Ivan the Great, and compressed into ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 61, November, 1862 • Various

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