Dmitry Mikhailovich Grozny Ochi, Grand Duke of Tver and Grand Duke of Vladimir (1299-1326), great-nephew of Alexander Nevsky, son of the holy noble prince Mikhail Yaroslavich of Tver and Anna Dmitrievna Rostovskaya, known as Anna Kashinskaya.
The origin of the Tver princes
The Tver princes came from the brother of Alexander Nevsky - Yaroslav, the son of the Grand Duke of Vladimir Yaroslav Vsevolodich, the grandson of Vsevolod the Big Nest.
Yaroslav Vsevolodovich, who became the Grand Duke of Vladimir, gave the former soviet, Pereyaslavl, to his son Alexander (Nevsky), and Tver to his other son, Yaroslav Yaroslavich, who was the first independent Tver prince. After the death of Alexander Nevsky in 1263, Yaroslav received the label of the Grand Duke in the Horde. Under his rule were Vladimir, Tver and Novgorod. In 1271, Yaroslav died, returning from a trip to the Horde. He bequeathed the Tver reign to Mikhail Yaroslavich, his son from the daughter of the Novgorod boyar Ksenia Yuryevna.
At the beginning of the XIV century. Tver's rival is Moscow. Since that time, between the two strongest northern Russian principalities - Tver and Moscow - a fierce and stubborn struggle begins, the visible object of which was the great principality of Vladimir, and the true one was political predominance, political hegemony.
In addition to Tver reign, Mikhail in 1304 was bequeathed to the Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich by a great reign, but Yuri Danilovich of Moscow entered the struggle for power. As a result of a long struggle, becoming a victim of a slander, Mikhail was executed in the Horde by Khan Uzbek. November 22, 1319
Dmitry Mikhailovich Terrible Eyes, Grand Duke of Tver. Biography
Dmitry Mikhailovich Terrible Eyes (1299 - 1325) - the eldest son of Mikhail Yaroslavich, Dmitry inherited his father on the Tver reign. He had to pay tribute to Yuri Danilovich of Moscow for transfer to the Horde. Dmitry was violent, was incontinent and impetuous, and besides, he always dreamed of taking revenge on Dolgoruky for the death of his father. Hence the nickname Terrible eyes.
He participated in the struggle of his father against Yuri Danilovich of Moscow. When Mikhail Andreevich died childless at the reign of Gorodets in 1311, and the Horde authorized the occupation of the principality by the Moscow Danilovichs (Boris sat in Nizhny Novgorod), 12-year-old Dmitry went to Nizhny Novgorod, but was stopped in Vladimir by Metropolitan Peter. In 1314, when his father left for the Horde, Dmitry commanded the Tver army, which went ashore of the Volga against the Novgorodians, supporters of Yuri. In 1321, Dmitry Mikhailovich recognized Yuri as the Grand Duke and paid him the Tver tribute (2000 rubles), but he did not transfer it to the Khan, but put it into circulation in Novgorod. Then Dmitry went to the Horde to the Uzbek Khan and accused Yuri of concealing part of the tribute intended for the Tatars. An angry Uzbek Khan gave Dmitry a label for a great reign.
Yuri stayed in Novgorod. In 1324, the Khan's ambassador Akhmyl came to him and convinced him to go to the Horde. After some time, Dmitry also arrived there. Having met there the culprit of the death of his father, on November 21, 1325, on the eve of the anniversary of the execution of Mikhail Yaroslavich, he hacked Yuri and began to wait for the khan's court, still having hope for khan's condescension. But Khan Uzbek was very angry at this arbitrariness. Yuri was his son-in-law, and supporters of Moscow indicated that they should avenge the death of a relative. In addition, they said, the forgiveness of the killer can be regarded as leniency on the part of the khan. In the end, the khan decided to execute the young 26-year-old prince. The execution took place on September 15, 1325. However, the label for the great reign of Vladimir received from the khan the brother of Dmitry Alexander, and not Ivan Kalita, the brother of Yuri Dolgoruky, although he was in the Horde at that time.
