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{{short description|Principality of the Late Middle Ages centred around Moscow}}
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<!--{{Redirect|Muscovy}}-->The '''Principality of Moscow'''{{sfn|Martin|2007|p=208, 222, 228, 231}}{{sfn|Halperin|1987|p=217}} or '''Grand Duchy of Moscow'''<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RgAKAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Grand+Duchy+of+Moscow%22 |title=A Short History of the USSR |date=1965 |publisher=Progress Publishers |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Florinsky |first=Michael T. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2sDKlXJ6SkC&q=%22Grand+Duchy+of+Moscow%22 |title=Russia: a History and an Interpretation |date=1965 |language=en}}</ref> ({{lang-ru|Великое княжество Московское|Velikoye knyazhestvo Moskovskoye}}), also known simply as '''Muscovy''' (from the [[Latin language|Latin]] {{lang|la|Moscovia}}),<ref>[http://padaread.com/?book=48746&pg=218 Introduction into the Latin epigraphy (Введение в латинскую эпиграфику)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310142637/http://padaread.com/?book=48746&pg=218|date=2021-03-10}}.</ref>{{sfn|Halperin|1987|p=217}} was a [[principality]] of the [[Late Middle Ages]] centered on [[Moscow]]. It eventually evolved into the [[Tsardom of Russia]] in the [[early modern period]]. The princes of Moscow were descendants of the first prince [[Daniel of Moscow|Daniel]], referred to in modern historiography as the ''Daniilovichi'',{{sfn|Martin|2007|p=487}} a branch of the [[Rurikids]].
{{Infobox Former Country
| native_name = {{Plainlist|
*Великое княжество Московское
*''Velikoye knyazhestvo Moskovskoye''
}}
| conventional_long_name = Principality of Moscow<br />Grand Duchy of Moscow
| common_name = Muscovy
| status = {{plainlist|
* Vassal state of the Golden Horde
*{{small|(1282–1471)}}
* Sovereign state
*{{small|(1471–1547)}}}}
| year_start = 1282<ref name="Daniil1282">{{Cite book |last=Kuchkin |first=Vladímir Andreevich |url=http://krotov.info/libr_min/11_k/uch/kin_10.htm |title=Первый московский князь Даниил Александрович |publisher=[[Nauka (publisher)|Nauka]] |year=1995 |series=[[Russian History (RAS journal)|Russian History]] |volume=1 |pages=94–107 |trans-title=The first Moscow prince, Danil Aleksandrovich |issn=0869-5687 }}</ref>
| year_end = 1547
| date_start =
| date_end = 16 January
| event_start =
| event_end = [[Coronation of the Russian monarch|Coronation]] of [[Ivan the Terrible|Ivan IV]] as [[tsar]]
| p1 = Vladimir-Suzdal
| p2 = Principality of Yaroslavl
| p3 = Principality of Nizhny Novgorod-Suzdal
| p4 = Novgorod Republic
| p5 = Principality of Tver
| p6 = Great Perm
| p7 = Principality of Ryazan
| s1 = Tsardom of Russia
| image_flag = Знамя Дмитрия Донского со Спасом.svg
| flag_border = no
| flag_size = 110px
| flag_type = {{Plainlist|
*{{nowrap|Banner of [[Dmitry Donskoy]]}}
*(colored according to medieval chronicles)
}}
| image_coat = Seal of Ivan 3 (reverse).svg
| symbol_type = [[Coat of arms of Russia|Double-headed eagle]] on the seal of {{nowrap|[[Ivan III of Russia|Ivan III]]}}
| coa_size = 100px
| image_map = Muscovy 1390 1525.png
| image_map_caption = Territorial expansion of the Principality of Moscow, 1300–1547{{Legend|#76A471|Core territory of Muscovy, 1300}}{{Legend|#86CE80|Territory of [[Vladimir-Suzdal]], acquired by Muscovy by 1390}}{{Legend|#AFF9A9|Territory acquired by 1505 ([[Ivan III of Russia|Ivan III]])}}{{Legend|#93FAC0|Territory acquired by 1533 ([[Vasili III of Russia|Vasili III]])}}
| religion = [[Russian Orthodox Church|Russian Orthodox]] ([[State religion|official]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Tsar's Foreign Faiths: Toleration and the Fate of Religious Freedom in Imperial Russia|first=Paul|last= W. Werth|year=2014| isbn= 9780199591770|page =147| publisher=Oxford University Press|quote=}}</ref>
| demonym = Muscovite
| capital = [[Moscow]]
| government_type = [[Absolute monarchy]]
| legislature = [[Veche]]
| title_leader = [[Prince of Moscow]]
| leader1 = [[Daniel of Moscow|Daniel]] <small>(first)</small>
| year_leader1 = 1282–1303<ref name="Daniil1282"/>
| leader2 = [[Ivan the Terrible|Ivan IV]] <small>(last)</small>
| year_leader2 = 1533–1547
| common_languages = [[Old East Slavic]], [[Russian language|Russian]]
| currency = [[ruble]], [[denga]]
| stat_year1 = 1505
| stat_area1 = 2,500,000
| ref_area1 = <ref>{{cite journal|author=Taagepera|first=Rein|author-link=Rein Taagepera|date=September 1997|title=Expansion and Contraction Patterns of Large Polities: Context for Russia|url=https://escholarship.org/content/qt3cn68807/qt3cn68807.pdf|url-status=live|journal=[[International Studies Quarterly]]|volume=41|issue=3|page=498|doi=10.1111/0020-8833.00053|jstor=2600793|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200707203055/https://escholarship.org/content/qt3cn68807/qt3cn68807.pdf|archive-date=2020-07-07|access-date=2021-10-21}}</ref>
}}
 
<!--{{Redirect|Muscovy}}-->The '''Principality of Moscow'''{{sfn|Martin|2007|p=208, 222, 228, 231}}{{sfn|Halperin|1987|p=217}} or '''Grand Duchy of Moscow'''<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RgAKAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Grand+Duchy+of+Moscow%22 |title=A Short History of the USSR |date=1965 |publisher=Progress Publishers |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Florinsky |first=Michael T. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2sDKlXJ6SkC&q=%22Grand+Duchy+of+Moscow%22 |title=Russia: a History and an Interpretation |date=1965 |language=en}}</ref> ({{lang-ru|Великое княжество Московское|Velikoye knyazhestvo Moskovskoye}}), also known simply as '''Muscovy''' (from the [[Latin language|Latin]] {{lang|la|Moscovia}}),<ref>[http://padaread.com/?book=48746&pg=218 Introduction into the Latin epigraphy (Введение в латинскую эпиграфику)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310142637/http://padaread.com/?book=48746&pg=218|date=2021-03-10}}.</ref>{{sfn|Halperin|1987|p=217}} was a [[principality]] of the [[Late Middle Ages]] centered on [[Moscow]]. It eventually evolved into the [[Tsardom of Russia]] in the [[early modern period]]. The princes of Moscow were descendants of the first prince [[Daniel of Moscow|Daniel]], referred to in modern historiography as the ''Daniilovichi'',{{sfn|Martin|2007|p=487}} a branch of the [[Rurikids]].
 
In 1263, Daniel inherited the territory as an [[appanage]] of his father [[Alexander Nevsky]], prince of [[Vladimir-Suzdal]], but it was not until 1282 that Daniel is mentioned as an independent prince of Moscow.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kuchkin |first=Vladímir Andreevich |url=http://krotov.info/libr_min/11_k/uch/kin_10.htm |title=Первый московский князь Даниил Александрович |publisher=[[Nauka (publisher)|Nauka]] |year=1995 |series=[[Russian History (RAS journal)|Russian History]] |volume=1 |pages=94–107 |trans-title=The first Moscow prince, Danil Aleksandrovich |issn=0869-5687 }}</ref> Initially, Muscovy was a [[vassal state]] to the [[Golden Horde]], paying the khans homage and tribute.<ref name="spielvogel"/> Moscow eclipsed and eventually absorbed its parent principality and later the other independent Russian principalities.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Duiker |first1=William J. |title=World history |date=2016 |location=Boston, MA |isbn=978-1305091726 |pages=446 |edition=Eighth, Advantage}}</ref> The [[Great Stand on the Ugra River]] in 1480 marked the end of nominal Tatar suzerainty over Russia,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Thompson |first1=John M. |title=Russia and the Soviet Union: an historical introduction second edition. |date=2019 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781000310566 |pages=73}}</ref><ref name="spielvogel">{{cite book |last1=Spielvogel |first1=Jackson J. |title=Western civilization |date=2015 |location=Stamford, CT |isbn=978-1285436401 |pages=361 |edition=Ninth}}</ref> though there were frequent uprisings and several successful military campaigns against the Mongols, such as an uprising led by [[Dmitry Donskoy]] against the ruler of the Golden Horde, [[Mamai]], in the [[Battle of Kulikovo]] in 1380.<ref>Davies, B. ''Warfare, State and Society on the Black Sea Steppe, 1500–1700''. Routledge, 2014, p. 5</ref>