not only their estate, but also vodchina could have been taken away from them. they could be subjected to corporal punishment. from the end of the 15th century, the tsar's serf became an honorary title for the boyars. since 1505, vasily ii has ruled russia. prince of vladimir and moscow, sovereign of all russia. vasily ii continued the policy of his father ivan ii of collecting russian lands and gradually abolishing appanage principalities. his greatest success was in acute the confrontation with the grand duchy of lithuania was the capture of smolensk. the russian state is growing stronger and developing. dated his first wife solomonia saburovo, a famous boyar family, and married for love the lithuanian beauty elena glinskaya. the grand duke was so eager to please his chosen one, who was three times his age, that he even erased his beard, which caused horror among conservative society. they gave birth to a wonderful boy, ivan, later nicknamed the terrible. ivan the terrible started the war . tivtonian order, defeated him, but then the livonian war was forced by

not only their estate, but also vodchina could have been taken away from them.ubjected to corporal punishment. since the end of the 15th century, the honorary title for boyars has been the tsar's slave. appeal serf. reflected in many ways the powerless status of even the highest russian feudal lords and radically distinguished them from the position of european feudal lords with their rights and ideas about freedoms. but from the beginning of the 15th century, the lithuanian state, increasingly squeezed by the grand duchy of moscow, which was expanding its borders, had to resort to military assistance from poland. in 1500 he defeated him, but then was forced to enter into the twenty-five-year livonian war with his dependent neighbors, sweden, lithuania and poland. at the first stage of the war, russian troops achieved significant success, conquering narva, derbt and a number of other cities. the polish king sikismund i informed the western monarchs, that the muscovites are not christians, but cruel barbarians belonging to asia and who have agreed with the turks