1. MUSCOVITE RUSSIA

2. END OF MONGOL RULE  Formal repudiation, 1480  But Russians had stopped paying formal tribute in 1452  Khan’s last efforts to reign in Russians fail

3. MUSCOVITE RUSSIA THE RISE OF AUTOCRACY  Ivan III: as heir to Byzantium & Kiev  Marries Sophia Paleologus, niece of last Byzantine Emperor  Invests office with greater prestige & authority adopts formal Byzantine court rituals & ceremony begins using titles TSAR, AUTOCRAT & GOSUDAR

4. MUSCOVITE RUSSIA THE RISE OF AUTOCRACY  Ivan III  Administrative changes aimed at increasing control  Redistribution of land – from votchina to pomestie  New codification of laws = Sudebnik

5. MUSCOVITE RUSSIA THE RISE OF AUTOCRACY  Ivan III  Built up Moscow gave city new grandeur Uspenskii Sobor (Assumption Cathedral) Granovitaia PalaceBlagoveshchenskii Sobor (Annunciation Cathedral)

6. MUSCOVITE RUSSIA THE RISE OF AUTOCRACY  Vasili III (r. 1505-1533)  Annexes all remaining appanages  Expands Russian borders  Establishes relations with great powers of time

7. MUSCOVITE RUSSIA THE CHURCH  Moscow as the “THIRD ROME”  Moscow as the new & legitimate center of Orthodox Christianity  Strengthened authority & prestige of Moscow & ruler  Russian Orthodoxy takes on messianistic qualities

8. MUSCOVITE RUSSIA THE CHURCH  POSSESSORS V. NON- POSSESSORS  Possessors: wanted close connection between church & tsar  Non-Possessors (Trans-Volga Elders): wanted poor church independent from state  Possessors emerge victorious  Now Church & state work to support each other Joseph of Volotsk Nil Sorskii

9. THE RISE OF MOSCOW WHY DID MOSCOW SUCCEED?  Geographic location  Role of princes  Relationship with Mongols  Role of Church